Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fundamentally, we face a political-a human-challenge of the very highest order. In spite of our great efforts and vast expenditures, we have been hugely unsuccessful in the battle for men's minds. We have spent more than $1,800 million in Italy since the war and during the same period the membership of the Communist Party there went from 60,000 to 2,500,000. We run the risk of a political campaign in which one candidate spends most of the money while the other candidate receives all the votes...
...critics) have come to regard all of the Maestro's music with dumb and unquestioning adoration. Certainly he has brought the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Verdi to life as no other man has. He is now a white-haired little man of 81, and when a human being reaches that age, his critics, remembering his finer hours, are apt to temper their judgments with mercy...
...weep when the composer only intended them to sigh. But if all that is needed is to follow the composer's explicit directions, what's all the fuss about conducting? To the average listener, it might seem that a mechanical metronome would serve as well as a human one. There are other conscientious conductors, just as selflessly anxious as Toscanini to express the composer's intent. Why does Toscanini tower over them...
...University of Southern California's newest candidate for "world's fastest human" was just, beginning to warm up last week. Unlike the late Charlie Paddock, who was chunky, 23-year-old Mel Patton is tall (6 ft.) and frail (147 lbs.). In Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, against a brisk breeze, Patton sped the 100 yards in 9.7 (three-tenths of a second off the world's record which he shares with seven others...
...knows much about the old three-story building behind Kirkland House. According to the University, it is "unfit for human habitation." But six students in the School of Design call it home and spend their spare time rebuilding...