Word: homo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Museum of Fine Arts' recently acquired Ecce Homo (right) helps correct that impression. Unlike Bosch's better-known canvases of nightmare torture and lust, it presents the actual: a turning point in human history. Bosch packed the expressions of the foreground crowd with cruelty and pride and made Pilate a picture of complacency, but these purely human horrors convince the mind as well as the eye. Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, dominates the scene by His gentleness, and speaks through it to the heart...
Last month, while Dr. Gallup was on vacation, his staff at Princeton, N.J. drew up an odd lot of questions designed to give some kind of picture of Homo americanus. Some results...
...subject of British Author Brigid Brophy's first novel, but the theme of her crisp witty satire is Man-his birth in pain his absurdity in marriage, his glory in freedom. Her ape is no ordinary one; its kind is the closest thing to Homo sapiens that the animal kingdom has produced. For that reason, Percy and Edwina are the center of impassioned scientific interest...
Died. Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, 66, Harvard anthropologist and author (Apes, Men and Morons) who, from his skull-littered desk, lectured for birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...
...celebrate the rediscovery of Caravaggio's Ecce Homo, Genoa borrowed Cigoli's version from Florence and displayed the two together. Visitors thronging the gallery at the rate of a thousand a day, agreed with Expert Roberto Longhi that Caravaggio's version is one of his "most moving works," and much superior to Cigoli's canvas. Caravaggio had at last won the competition he lost to his rival Cigoli 3½ centuries...