Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compositions, which showed three women standing together-one in black, one in white, one nude. He used this trio in several different canvases, known collectively as "the Sphinx" cycle. They epitomized, as no other subject could, the shy, alcoholic bachelor's agonized obsession with that half of the human race which he never was able to understand...
Psychologists and other social scientists study the actions and reactions of the albino rat to learn about human behavior. Now a University of Wash ington psychologist, Robert B. Lockard, suggests in American Psychologist that the laboratory lessons may be invalid, and that the rats do not prove much about people. The reason is that the albino rat-a mutant form of the wild brown rat-is a genetic monster of dubious value to research. Caged and bred in captivity for more than a century, it is a man-made abomination-fat and degenerate, faithful neither to its wild ancestry...
...psychologists have frequently extrapolated from rat performances in mazes all manner of conclusions about man. Because rats can tolerate a good deal of alcohol, for instance-ounce for ounce, more than man-experimenters have thrown doubt on the longstanding conclusion that man and drink dangerously mix. Insights into the human capacity for stress, based on experiments with placid laboratory rats, falter before the unrehearsed wild rat's total inability to endure any man-imposed stress...
Dependent Animal. In its social organization, the rat makes a poor human analogue. The newborn rat, for instance, gets a minimum of parental care and is self-sufficient within just 22 days. The young human is the most cared-for of all the world's mammals. His dependency can last as long as 22 years...
Strung out on Dr. Spielvogel's couch, Portnoy becomes the first of the lie-down comics. Raised in Newark and now holding the post of Assistant Human Opportunities Commissioner in New York City, he renders his past absurd in an attempt to lessen its painful grip on him. He keens the familiar tale of the strongwilled, overattentive mother and the castrated father. He tells how his mother fondled him during toilet training, how she eroticized the insides of his ears while removing the wax, and how she forced him to eat at knife point. Portnoy is continuingly being floored...