Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...their black Celtic crosses or to drill in the makeshift uniforms of the territorial army, a sort of Algerian home guard. Truckloads of armed peasants had rushed in from the rich plain of Mitidja. And there were the girls of all of them, serving as nurses or waitresses or human chains to pass stones to the barricades, but, nevertheless, wearing high heels, tight skirts and floppy sweaters...
...praised Santha Rama Rau's treatment ("excellent and sensitive"), thanked the 18-member cast "not only for being so good but for being so many. Most modern plays have only a man and two women or a woman and two men. I tried to depict the diversity of human types...
Indonesia's best artist is an affable, intense gnome of a man who bears the single name Affandi and admits to a single-minded devotion to art as human expression. Affandi once defined humanism as meaning "all that is right and good to every living creature. When I am making a painting, and suddenly I hear a child that is crying because its doll has fallen into the water, I have to stop painting and help the child first...
...seems an oriental counterpart to Van Gogh's; and like the European master, Affandi sometimes feels in blissful communion with nature while at other times his human passions boil up in sorrowing rage. His Javanese wife cares for his few worldly concerns and helps keep him on an even keel...
...teacher (and later principal) at Omaha's Technical High School, he developed a three-level English curriculum, forerunner of his four-track system. Long before going to Washington in 1947, he had hammered out a tough-minded notion of priorities: "Out of the unbelievable range and variety of human activities and experiences, only a limited number of basic ones can be selected for teaching in the classroom...