Word: human
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept him comfort ably supplied with commissions. He proved himself the greatest portraitist of modern sculpture, immortalized hosts of the great (including the frozenly quizzical Somerset Maugham and the electric-haired "Ein") with dashing busts that almost seemed to breathe. "What could be more interesting," he demanded, "than a human face?" Epstein's female portraits were often busts in undress; he proved that breasts also can show personality...
Last week in Upsala, Sweden, Kolb reported his preliminary results to an international conference of physicists. The data indicated that his project has made a significant advance toward the achievement of the first controlled fusion reaction, an objective that could give the human race a source of energy that would last for millions of years: one small bucket of water holds enough heavy hydrogen to make fuel equivalent to 300 gallons of gasoline...
...critics agreed with Laughton's interpretation. The News Chronicle found him "not at all unlike a mixture of Charles Darwin and Longfellow . . . weak and frail and human . . . hardly ever majestic, towering or superhuman." But the Times thought "Mr. Laughton's performance a superb essay in stage pathos...
...dream. When Sitwell sees a kitten, the animal will have nothing to do with him, it arches its back and its tail goes up straight, for "I have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their god is in themselves and not in a high place in the sky . . . We, and all creatures, are left to fend for ourselves." To the reader of the slightest religious instinct, Author Sitwell's long and learned journey is about as enlightening as a snatch...
...moment of high dramatic intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler shifts." His characters may seem as standard as those in any war film (his monsters, though, are quite human), but most science-fiction writers proceed on the assumption, probably correct, that one man's neurosis, however interesting, is not very significant when the solar system he inhabits is about to be demolished...