Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sigmund Freud,* wrote from Vienna that the spoiled child, the unwanted or illegitimate child and the child of imperfect physique are in danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...
...story tells of a prince who went through the mysterious portals of the title and came back a human being. A beautiful princess is properly provided. Searching reality, the prince has found romance. His people, viciously resenting his likeness to themselves rather than to their cherished fancy of a gold & purple ruler, exiled...
Some critics cry that here is built up a tragedy, weakened by a happy ending; but the happiness is a realistic accident arising out of the destruction of youth's defiant assuredness. Poetic writing, sensibility to the relationship between men and Nature, insight into the illogicality of human action, human destiny, project the reader into the inscrutable problems and emotions of life, receive critical praise...
...effective expression of the pacifistic philosophy. Reviewing the tendency to glorify war in the schools. Lorenzen stated that the average student gets the impression that the history of mankind has consisted of glorious wars and a few periods of dull peace. This coloring of history is responsible for the human love of armed conflict, and an uncompromising pacifism must go into the school textbooks and give a true picture...
With one victory each, the opposing teams again met in Symphony Hall in 1925, and the University team defeated Oxford on the negative of the question: "Resolved. That the growth and activities of the Socialist Movement are detrimental to human progress." Last year the Cambridge team's wit and eloquence proved too much for the logic of the Harvard speakers, and the Cantabrigians won, 715 to 274, by their support of the growing tendency of government to invade individual rights...