Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOYS IN THE BAND. Playwright Mart Crowley's characters are first of all wonderfully human. Secondarily, they are homosexual. Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey and Cliff Gorman lead a sharply honed cast through dialogue of lacerating wit and excruciating humor...
...kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century's most fateful year was 1914, when the West plunged...
Last fall Britain devalued the pound, the gold crisis agitated the world-and so did the first human-heart transplant...
...pear for King Louis Philippe's heavy-jowled face), he fought for a variety of political causes, including a free press. In addition he illustrated La Fontaine's Fables, Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe, all the time building a memorable cast of hybrid creatures, half human, half animal...
...LIMITS OF HUMAN NATURE: "A good man isn't good for everything...