Word: humanizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peace & War. As long ago as 1932 the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, headed by the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (then Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, longtime president of Stanford University), reported after five years of study: "Human life in the U.S. is being wasted as recklessly, as surely, in times of peace as in times of war. Thousands of people are sick and dying daily in this country because the knowledge and facilities that we have are inadequately applied. We must promptly put this knowledge and these facilities to work...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine this week, a mixed congregation of 5,000 whites and Negroes attended the New York Interracial Fellowship's fifth annual "race relations service." "The human race is a social solidarity," said Bishop William J. Walls of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. "The church will free its soul and hands only if it removes from itself the stigma that it is the most segregated institution in the United States ... By letting itself become the agent of separation and aloofness it has failed...
...Titan. An exciting documentary which recreates the work, life and times of Michelangelo without a glimpse of human actors (TIME...
Twelve O'Clock High. A fresh, convincing drama about a human crisis in a U.S. wartime bomber group; with Gregory Peck (TIME...
Like the others it is a skillful, dramatic allegory in which each character becomes an effective symbolic puppet. Like the others it deals with unpalatable human possibilities, but like most allegories it induces fairy-tale shivers instead of moral indignation...