Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with TIME'S professed intention to report accurately if he had even mentioned that my book is not primarily what he calls an "excursion" into world politics, but rather an essay on "the necessity for Americans and Europeans to reach beyond the barriers of their political differences to human and cultural understanding...
...strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
...talk. Right alongside of his classic nudes he was showing other figures geometrically distorted in a way that foreshadowed cubism. Describing them in his Journal, Novelist André Gide wrote that "Nadelman draws with a compass and sculpts by assembling rhomboids. He has discovered that every curve of the human body is accompanied by a reciprocal curve which opposes it and corresponds to it. The harmony which results from these balancings smacks of the theorem." Gide had put his finger on one undeniable weakness of Nadelman's art-its cold intellectuality...
...treatment is still experimental. The Rh-hapten, which must be made from human blood, is expensive, and its action is not yet clearly understood. But already it has saved some babies who would almost certainly have died before birth, and others who would have had little chance of living more than a few days...
Professor Wild thought science had brought about an extreme materialistic philosophy and the worship of the scientific method. He stressed the fact that the scientific method is not a valid instrument for ferreting out the harmful material tendencies of human life...