Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have great potential for easing the problem of protein malnutrition throughout the humid tropics." But for all their enthusiasm, scientists admit that to begin widespread growth and use of the plant where it has never been grown before may involve obstacles, botanical and otherwise. Indeed, so perverse are human beings that it may prove a difficult thing to change eating habits. As the University of Florida's Kelly points out, though, scientists might take a lesson from history. When Louis XVI tried to popularize potatoes in France during the 18th century, the people refused to eat them-until...
...Holocaust: only those who were there can ever know. But Holocaust does a lot to increase our comprehension of its unfathomable subject. As one character says on her way to the gas chamber, "It's so hard to remember that we're individual people." Holocaust attaches human faces to the inhuman statistics of mass murder. It envelops the audience in grief and suffering, and long after the show has ended, the pain does not easily go away...
...Mahagonny: flat horizons broken by mesas or isolated, rococo-deco movie palaces; the tubular, metallic faces of Midwest entrepreneurs and their massive but wizened spouses, gazing blankly through their horn-rims: blazing signs the size of provincial churches; all-leg girls and cowboys teetering on their long heels like human stilts. The drawings testify to America's unutterable strangeness in the eyes of a young European who could not as yet speak English. "Individuals unmasking themselves only to reveal other masks," Rosenberg notes in his essay, "verbal cliches masquerading as things, a countryside that is an amalgam of all imported...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Human Factor, Graham Greene Kalki, Gore Vidal∙Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
...Bloodline, Sheldon (1 last week) 2. The Thorn Birds, McCullough (3> 3. Scruples, Krantz (2) 4. The Human Factor, Greene (7) 5. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (5) 6. The Holcroft Covenant, Ludlum 7. The Women's Room, French (8) 8. The Honourable Schoolboy. Le Carre (4) 9. A Stranger is Watching, Clark (JO) lO.Whisile,Jones...