Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Clear. Hubert Humphrey's liberalism differs from the cerebral variety of Adlai Stevenson, for example, more because of what Humphrey is than what he says. Humphrey, a scrappy, up-from-the-precinct politician, is generally charming, garrulous, out-giving, and he responds chemically to the presence of other human beings. At times he seems to draw strength from people: often when he appears before an audience looking completely worn and tired, he appears to undergo a physical change. Energy seems to flow into him from his listeners; his eyes sparkle and his color heightens...
...Jaccoud's absence on a business trip to Sweden, police searched his house and office, impounded two pistols, an exotic Moroccan dagger, Jaccoud's bicycle and clothing. The police laboratory reported that there were traces of blood and human liver on the dagger, and tiny bloodstains on Jaccoud's raincoat and on his bicycle. Furthermore, a button was missing from his raincoat, and a similar button was found just outside the house...
...Jaccoud during her four hours of purple testimony. The judge, studying the nude photos that Linda said had been taken at gun point, remarked that she seemed "perfectly tranquil and at ease." Conceded Linda: "Well, I didn't react." Did she consider the defendant capable of killing a human being? After some hesitation, Linda said, "I don't think so." Lawyer Floriot wrung from Linda the admission that she had taken a new lover since André, a young Belgian who worked for the Palais des Nations, and he left implicit the suggestion that if the jealous Jaccoud...
...Britain's wily Gamesman Stephen Potter. Voice of the negative: rotund, orotund Orson Welles, not a whit shaken by his introduction as "the best film director-actor in the world today.'' Welles readily agreed that stereotyped U.S. culture is not easily defended: "This mass reduction of human dignity makes me sick." But he hastened to absolve the U.S. of disseminating vulgarity throughout the rest of the West: "If it fails to resist it, [Europe] must look to its own weaknesses and its own form of spiritual flabbiness. Now you are catching up with us! All Europe...
...that few writers can match. Her brief views of German life and her cameralike shots of war's destruction will make veterans realize what they only half saw when they were there. But with her poet's range and passion, she overshoots, as she usually has, the human mark. Her Germans are more credible than her own countrymen. The colonel is harshly drawn in a reasonably fair picture, but Milly and Catherine both lack reality. And who can believe that the kind of people described in this novel ever speak with the tongues of poets and philosophers about...