Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Live in Peace (Italian). Less detailed and less exciting to watch than Shoeshine, this film was even more striking in its pure exposition of human brotherhood (TIME...
Below God's platform stood a second, wider one, representing the earth, and the scenes enacted there were surprising not for their grandeur but for their truth to human nature. In one version, the shepherds were three Apennine comics: Nencio, Bobbi and Randello. Nencio inclined to be difficult; he refused to go in search of the Child until after breakfast. The shepherds offered their cloaks to the Madonna for blankets, begging her not to be offended by the goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much...
...Byzantine ideal; he gave the Virgin smoothly arched brows, like two bows, and a delicately pursed mouth, in the accepted tradition, and made her cool and peaceful as a cloud. And she never changed, essentially, in all his later paintings of her; she only became more real, more human and more alive each time. Before he died, Bellini's faith and art had combined to create Madonnas like the one here reproduced, which were credibly like the Virgin the Wise Men found at Bethlehem: a living woman, and the Mother of God. The compassion in that Madonna...
Objections. But more education for more people was only part of the problem. What kind of education should they get? "Too often," said the commission, "a man is 'educated' in that he has acquired competence in some particular occupation, yet falls short of that human wholeness and civic conscience which . . . citizenship requires. . . . The unity of liberal education has been splintered by overspecialization...
...Hawley Harvey Crippen. In 1910, Dr. Crippen poisoned his wife, buried her in quicklime in the basement and ran off with his typist. Before Scotland Yard was sure that a murder had been committed, Spils and his microscope identified something found in the basement as a bit of human skin with an appendectomy scar. Ships at sea were alerted and Dr. Crippen, despite his disguise, was nabbed in the St. Lawrence before his ship landed...