Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that those who can count more dogs among their friends than cats," wrote Actor James Mason in a felicitous thesis for the New York Times, "lean more also toward doglike characteristics in their human friends. They like hearty extraverts and children-people, in fact, who wag their tails and bark...
...American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face the greatest crisis in the history of civilization. . . . Man must offer himself to become the 'wheat of Christ' in Christianity's ancient principle of dying to self; or else . . . humanity shall know the graceless and terrible tragedy of self-destruction...
With the help of his American wife, the former Mary Bishop Harriman, Dr. du Noüy wrote the current bestseller, Human Destiny (TIME, Feb. 24). In it he assembled impressive scientific and mathematical data to demonstrate that life could not have been the result of a chance combination of elements. Life, he said, must have been created for some long-range purpose. This purposiveness Scientist du Noüy called "telefinality." Mankind-the highest and most complex life-form of all-must, he believed, go on developing in the direction of spirituality, as exemplified by Christ...
...Remember. . . ." Consciousness of one's tremendous responsibility in the great evolutionary process was to him the mark of a more highly evolved human being: "Let every man remember that the destiny of mankind is incomparable, and that it depends greatly on his will to collaborate in the transcendent task. . . . And let him above all never forget that the divine spark is in him, in him alone, and that he is free to disregard it, to kill it, or to come closer to God by showing his eagerness to work with...
...safety is too well known to demand repeating. The picture, however, does bear seeing again, even for a third or fourth time. Robert Newton as a mad artist searching for a mysterious "dying look"; the elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie breath blow down its neck and whisper that perhaps it, too, is not long...