Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meyer A. Perlstein took the package out to the garage, set it on his workbench and stripped the wrappings. With a screwdriver, the doctor pried the top off a shiny new quart can. In it, well preserved by wrappings of formaldehyde-soaked gauze, was a human brain...
...play a full-bodied, full-businessed stage life. A moment is tense, a scene is touching, the author obviously cares, the general effect is thoroughly his own. Yet the general effect has a somewhat ploppy, India-rubberlike impact. Playwright Inge's most definitive quality-his feeling for human lostness-becomes a little too insistent. It does not emerge from the characters; it tends, instead, to shape them. In the circumstances, the play's very title becomes too overt...
...Live TV has that little element of human fallibility," Singer Dinah Shore once said. "If you make a mistake, you can use that old ham bone and capitalize on it." Last week Dinah almost got knocked off-camera by a playful poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest...
Nobody can seriously maintain such a proposition who has bothered to examine the observations of previous generations. Informal observation has added very little to our knowledge of human nature since the Christian revelation replaced Hellenism. A complete formulation must either be the by product of individual genius (which may be called Godly for lack of a better word) or else must come as a culmination to a long formal development which allows individuals to use the insights and visions of the past, as did the Greek dramatists...
Those of us who have faith in social science believe that this "modern" approach may eventually yield a new vision because it uses new technical and philosophical devices for organizing and formulating our insights into human nature. We cannot plausibly contend that a mere increase in the number of observers who can find publishers will expand this vision, unless social science can offer us a form which will give these multiple minor insights a cumulative effect. Without such a form, each insight will be returned to the society from which it sprang, without affecting that society or making possible...