Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S human touch last summer in presenting Mormon Leader Smith as "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth" drew apt approval in Letters. Now in a single issue [March 29] we find Music-Maestro Ormandy and Ball-Bingler Crosby popping peppermint and peanuts into their mouths...
...critics maintain that he belongs to the 19th Century; that he is shortsighted in world affairs; that he is stubborn, cold, impatient of opposition; that he is tactless ("It is dishonest to be tactful," he says); that he lacks the kind of wisdom which comes from human understanding; that basically he distrusts the judgment of the people...
...Hungry Angels. Against these men and their human machine stood great forces. One was the force symbolized by the U.S. Embassy. Italians like America; they have at least an inkling of what American democracy is about. How, then, were the Communists able to stand up against American influence? Partly it was America's own doing. The U.S. had never effectively advertised the nature or the extensive amount of its help, or the peaceful intentions of its purpose. Above all, the U.S. was remote and rich. The Communists adroitly played on these facts, and on Italy's fears...
...R.E.G. Armattoe, of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, whose paper was read to the meeting, is a student of human hairiness, which varies, he said, with geography and intellect. For some undetermined reason, the most intellectual men are apt to be the baldest. Dr. Armattoe attended the 1947 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Dundee, Scotland, and found that 55% of the male delegates showed "central baldness" and 22% "frontal baldness." Swedish intellectuals were found to be in the most desperate shape: 70% of them are bald before they are 40. In Switzerland the incidence of intellectual...
...cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor and patience behind the entire effort appalls the imagination, let alone the intelligence...