Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstand in the film is the fine performance of Raimu, who, as the well-digger, is making his last screen appearance in this production. Raimu lends a fine mixture of broad humor and human dignity to the performance of his role. He is equally effective when pleading with the youth's parents for a righting of the wrong done his daughter or when describing the ample charms of his late wife. This blend of the humorous with the elements of human tragedy is characteristic of this fine film which retains both humor and dignity in its treatment of a human...
Chief of the investigation is pink-cheeked Dr. Christopher Howard Andrewes, who in 1933 discovered that ferrets could be infected with influenza, thereby paving the way for experiments which produced a flu vaccine. The common cold is different: only chimpanzees and human beings catch it. Chimpanzees are scarce and costly. Dr. Andrewes decided to call for human volunteers...
...Partridge of Thornton Heath, Surrey, put three names in nomination: Henry Wallace, "the man who faced America"; Albert Einstein, "for trying"; and Anon., "a child born recently who will be the last survivor of Europe, which . . . will have become a vast, slightly radioactive wilderness, entirely devoid of human life...
...into which we are entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history. But do not misunderstand; by religious we do not mean that men will turn to God, but rather that the indifference to the absolute which characterized the liberal phase of civilization will be succeeded by a passion for an absolute. From now on the struggle will be not for colonies and national rights, but for the souls of men. . . . From now on men will divide themselves into two religions-understood again as surrender to an absolute. The conflict of the future is between...
...childhood memories, each followed by a digression in genealogy, i.e., the story of mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish. And, as nobody likes to perish (the experience is so uncomfortably drastic and final), people began to use their brains and became great inventors...