Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Taboada, a stern old diplomat of the striped-pants school, ran his eye over a copy of a television speech by Castro's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and stiffened with horror. Argentina's President Frondizi, as Roa expressed it, was not only "a viscous concretion of all human excrescences"; he was also "the villain of a badly composed tango...
...somehow that love should be the great theme of his life, and he is swept away on plans to produce an unending series of love films-carnal and spiritual, full-length and short-for TV. straight cinema, schoolrooms, garden clubs, anyone who wants to hear the gospel of human affection and tenderness. Says he: "I will become the colossus of love...
Presidential Promises. Magalhaes is determined to correct the federal government's neglect of the state. "We have reached the utmost limits of human distress," Magalhaes says bitterly. The Sao Paulo newspaper 0 Estado agrees with him: "The nation has bled Bahia...
...Cambyses, the Persians were a peaceable lot. They kept few slaves, dutifully paid tribute to Astyages the Spear Thrower. King of the Medes, and lived by five things: "The seed grain, the tools that plant it, the water that gives growth, the tame animals that cultivate it, and the human labor that garners its harvest...
...Best Reading The Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The grief of a 59-year-old plumber over the sudden death of his wife is the unlikely subject of this remarkably skillful first novel. With telling economy, Author Wallant suggests the climate of a marriage, the texture of sorrow without sentimentality and the twisting agony of an agnostic Job who cannot tame his rage with resignation...