Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read with great interest the very able article on my father, Mahatma Gandhi [TIME, Feb. 9]. It was of the high standard you have led people to expect. ... I profoundly agree with the thesis of the writer that there was something more human and greater than "mysticism" in Gandhi. But the "notably unmystical metaphor" which you attribute to him-"If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen"-was never uttered...
...cynical, complacent and evil-browed rulers, politicians, moguls, authors and social climbers which your columns must perforce exhibit, the charming figure of Princess Elizabeth [TIME, March 15] stands out like the morning star of human faith and hope. Alive, intelligent, eager, energetic, she is the quintessence of beauty ... a blessing to mankind. . . . A. W. SINCLAIR...
...Toombs County, Ga., a herd of hogs was fattened up on three carloads of fruitcake-Army surplus, declared unfit for human consumption...
...cornerstone of his philosophy the concept of what he called "metaphysical freedom." He regarded creativity as man's highest expression of that freedom. Man cannot truly be redeemed, he thought, until he submerges even the problem of his own salvation in creative activity-artistic, intellectual, or in human relations...
Courteous & Clinical. Anthropologist Gorer has spent seven years in the U.S. with British wartime missions and on the staffs of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Yale Institute of Human Relations. In comparison with the old tobacco-spitting attacks of the great English travelers -Dickens, Trollope, Captain Basil Hall -The American People is refined and respectful. Yet its cool and clinical air reveals at times an underlying dislike which may be more destructive than the old quarrel between eagle-screaming Americans, whooping that they could lick the world, and haughty British remittance men sneering at them for spitting on the floors...