Word: gods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiment conducted by Latane and another colleague, college students in a waiting room heard a tape recording that simulated the sounds of a woman climbing onto a chair to reach a stack of papers. She fell, injured her ankle, and began to moan, "Oh my God -my foot! I . . . can't get this thing off me." Seventy percent of the people who were waiting by themselves offered help; with another person in the waiting room, only 20% showed their concern...
...think, just eleven men in the world who were wise enough to understand it at the time. You'd be glad to know that my son quotes it frequently, and other schoolboys do too. He and others remember some of your other words. What you said about God, for example: 'I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the world. Nature is subtle, but never malevolent. Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind...
...ruined chateau, a family of French aristocrats are slowly starving to death. The austere, haughty marquise conceives a plan. With the help of God-and her daughter and granddaughter-she will turn the place into a bordello. As Baudelaire wrote and the picture illustrates, "Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with the desire to change his bed." In a sudden deluge of customers, the most libidinous patient is Cesar (Yves Montand), a glib, jittery professional thief. The ladies of the house conspire to render unto themselves what is Cesar's-a million stolen francs-with...
...Teuber himself who puts the stigma of ultimate mystery on the figure of Jesus. An actor of extraordinary range, his performance is theatrically protean. Teuber's Christ is by turns a performer, a teacher, an advocate, as well as men and God. Playing always to an audience among the other characters--whether to his disciples, his accusers, or the crowd at large--he reserves the essential personality of Christ himself. Where acting styles are concerned, "use anything" would appear to be Teuber's operating principle, no less that that of the entire remarkable show, including Peter Ivers' electric eclectic...
...humidity so heavy you can touch it in the air. Walking from an air conditioned room outside into the heat and then stepping back into the icebox again gives you headaches, diahhrea, and slothfulness. It feels real good to sweat: your body is keeping you cool the way God wanted...