Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conrad Aiken has experimented with more than one style and more than one attitude toward life. He has at last proclaimed his credo one of complete detachment from contemporary problems and turns his back on the petty squabbles and differences occasioned by such human institutions as, say, a presidential election. One of the most beautiful and searching of Mr. Aiken's poems is that beginning...
...obstetrical cases. Declared Dr. Charles Camblos Norris: "Recent increases in hospital confinements in this country have greatly increased unnecessary surgical interference with labor, with results so unfortunate as to nullify the improvements in maternal mortality statistics which should have been expected from the concurrent extension of antenatal care. Human nature being what it is, the environment of the general hospital has tended to make of obstetric art a sort of surgical specialty in which many an ill-fitted practitioner may essay to shine. The answer is not a return to domiciliary care of normal parturients. Paradoxical as it may seem...
...form of cataplexy (fear-rigidity). When he tried such crude tactics on chimpanzees in London. Vienna. Berlin and South America, the apes simply got up from their unnatural positions with an air of patient boredom. He then concluded that the intelligence of his subjects called for human methods. By this time Britain's gaunt Biologist Julian Huxley, interested in the experiments, had made it possible for the Austrian to carry on at the London...
...discomfort the storm ended, and he suddenly heard a wood thrush, "a song of a few clear, mellow, flute-like notes falling in gentle cadences." As he listened he thought that no song could be "so gentle in its last, almost inaudible phrases." He gave up painting portraits of human beings. "After this,'' said he, "I shall follow only the birds of America...
...railway as the troops embarked for the front; the daughter of a town official has robbed her father and started for Paris; an embittered young soldier, wounded, has broken with his parents. In all of them, as in himself, Cripure finds more than adequate support for his belief that human beings are contemptible...