Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the answer from all continents was a fatuous yes. The answer missed the point; Gandhi was a rarer human being-a good man. He disturbed people by his goodness. He called himself "a Hindu of Hindus," and yet he put many a professing Christian to shame. "The spirit of the Sermon on the Mount," wrote the man who fitted the rubrics of the Beatitudes more comfortably than most Christians, "competes almost on equal terms with the Bhagavad-Gita for the domination of my heart...
Assorted animals got caught in the shifting gears of human ingenuity last week. Some results...
...Labrador, a team of dog paratroopers made a practice jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved that the dogs knew what to do with a grounded chute. Crowed an airman: "Instinctively, the dogs run to the chute...
...Paris Soir, flashy Max Corre, now 35, took his creed from a sign above an editor's desk: "1) Where is the fact? 2) Where is the human interest? 3) Where is the tra-la-la?" The thing that most impressed him was the tralala. When France fell, Corre managed to miss the occupation's hardships by going to Lyon. But he turned up as an eleventh-hour Resistance soldier under General Leclerc and rode into Paris as a private in one of the first jeeps behind Leclerc...
Architects, Wright believes, should concern themselves as much with human aspirations as with human needs. "Organic" architecture, he concludes in the FORUM, must have "the integrity, where the human spirit is concerned, of a tree or a plant. It is that character in the buildings shown here that should interest...