Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denied all this, Lillian Hellman's libretto also bears her own strong impress, which is foreign to Voltaire's. Where Voltaire is ironic and bland, she is explicit and vigorous. Where he makes lightning, rapier thrusts, she provides body blows. Where he is diabolical, Playwright Hellman is humanitarian...
...know who wrote the Nov. 5 article on Dan Dale Alexander (whose patients have benefited by the treatment prescribed in his Arthritis and Common Sense), but I think it was an unjust attempt to malign a true humanitarian...
Every cent of Harvard's gift will be spent directly, immediately, by the World University Service for the relief of suffering students. The University will express next Monday and Tuesday a profound humanitarian concern for repressed Hungary...
...Organize drives for funds and clothing to be sent to the refugees and rebels through such associations as the Red Cross, CARE, the United Nations, and any others engaged in this humanitarian task. Surely if Harvard students and faculty members could organize fund drives for Wendell Furry, Leon Kamin and others, would they not be willing to contribute to this great cause? We could contact the National Student Association and Radio Free Europe, also, and offer our help in whatever projects they may have on this matter...
...using and exploring it for the enrichment of her art. The bisexuality that she felt to be in every artist is reflected in her work by her manly style and womanly sensitivity. The brotherhood of man, sorrow over death, the cruelty of war, care of the sick--these great humanitarian sentiments were the themes of her work. She wasn't mawkish: her work is grim and reminiscent of Goya's Disaster of War. The grimness is lifted only now and then by a look of suprise on the face of a young girl or by a mother laughing...