Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theologian Brunner tells sociologists that the dehumanized quality of modern life is not the fault of technics (mass production, high-speed communications, etc.), but is to be blamed on the secularized, un-Christian men who put technics to work. Here, says Brunner, the Christian church has woefully let men down: "Is it not shameful for the Christian society that Confucian China was capable of suppressing the military use of gunpowder, while the Christian Church could not prevent . . . the development of a war machinery incomparably more dreadful...
...Some people have to work very hard for a tear. Others can have them just for the thinking...
...Unless somebody does or says something horribly mean to me," wrote Lafcadio Hearn to a friend, "I can't do certain kinds of work-the tiresome kinds, that compel a great deal of thinking...
Hearn had married a Negro woman. In 1877 he pulled up stakes, deserted his wife and headed for New Orleans, where he went to work for the Item, later for the Times-Democrat...
...Selected Writings will "give readers a chance to assess Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...