Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large sections of the non-Christian world, suicide was and is often accounted an honorable act. Christianity, which believes that every human life belongs to its Creator, has always regarded suicide as a sin. The so-called Christian world of today, sadly confused on matters of life & death, gives lip-service to Christian belief but takes its hat off and stands to attention before a deed of pagan virtue. This confusion was well illustrated last week by Unitarian Minister A. Powell Davies of Washington, D.C., who hailed Jan Masaryk's self-destruction as a hero's act. Wrote...
...human race is enjoying what zoologists sometimes call a "breeding storm." In 1630 there were about 400,000,000 people on earth. By 1830 the earth's population had doubled. By 1900 it had doubled again: to 1,600,000,000. Now the total is over two billion, and the increase is about 1% (20,000,000 people) a year...
...Osborn's basic thesis is reasonable. Improvements in food-getting require better organization and discipline than most nations possess. And even if all of them were put in practice, that would only postpone the crisis. The human race cannot continue to increase indefinitely at ts present rate without reaching the starvation point-as India has done already...
...weeks since its publication, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has risen nearly to the top of the bestseller list. (The publishing trade calls it "the least-read bestseller.") Its popularity shows that many a U.S. grownup is just as curious about sex as adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three...
Bill and Coo (Republic), after assuring you of your sanity in a well-advised prologue (with a glimpse of Producer Ken Murray and a couple of other human beings), settles down to its real business and drifts serenely out of this world. The actors and extras, in this astounding film are 200-odd birds - mostly midget parrots. The bird actors whistle, or appear to whistle, jazz obbligati. They wear bow ties and little hats, operate a streetcar, a taxi and a hook-&-ladder. They live, it is painful to report, in a town called Chirpendale, whose main intersection is Birdway...