Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orchids and huzzahs. . . . Here is reviewing raised to a brilliant level on a par with its brilliant subject. In fact, all of your cover articles . . . are, I think, model "profiles" which students of journalism as well as the lay reader should note as encyclopedic in content, human in approach, and definitive as history...
...fierce Huns and Mongols and Tatars who once swept out of central Asia seemed hardly human to their victims. Few civilized people cared how the devils on horseback might live in their faraway homelands, and little is known of the invaders today...
During its whole visit, the comet acted as if it wanted to dodge human observation. Astronomer Leland E. Cunningham of the University of California, who worked out its orbit from data collected in Australia, reported that it slipped out of space on the far side of the sun. Sweeping around the sun within a whisker (9,000,000 miles), it stayed for the most part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible...
...appreciation as the lock on his door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting a limited realism for his usual smooth abstraction. The compromise was recognizably human, in a streamlined sort of fashion, but inertly bland as stone could...
...searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently comic memories of many an American childhood. "Bull of the Woods" goes all round a machine shop to show that there, too, human nature runs triumphantly rampant. And Williams' slackjawed, dust-caked cowhands, Curly, Stiffy, Wes and Soda of Out Our Way, have some of his friend Will Rogers' half-sad drollery. They are the working cowhands that Williams knew as a rancher ("when I was healthy an' didn...