Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Russians blowing up our primrose path with Sputniks, now more than ever is the time to be glad that we are living in a country where some of the scientists spend their time working for human happiness, to ease human suffering, and to make life more enjoyable. I would rather go down in a ship that had room for all mankind than stay aboard one that floated on the backs of oppressed peoples and found its greatest achievement in 40 years to be a potential weapon of destruction...
Though it is impossible to predict where it will fall, since most of the earth is water and uninhabited land, the fall may not be within human eyesight, Dr. Spitz asserted. He said that the flash would be brilliant at night and possibly so bright that it could be visible in the daytime...
...uninterrupted half hour of disarming intimacy and directness. Other conductors, he chuckled, get "furious" when he conducts his own works ("They consider it competition"), but "you earn more as a conductor" than as a composer. "Music," Stravinsky explained, "is an organization of tones-an act of the human mind." For him organization began at the age of eight. "I was playing a scale on the piano. I thought, if somebody invented the scale, I can change something in the scale and invent something else-and I invented...
...Along Without You Very Well, he managed more persuasive casting: Hoagy Carmichael and Walter Winchell playing themselves. The story was a treacly tale about a search for an anonymous lyricist, but Hoagy's sangfroid and Pommery piano made a nice counterpoint to Walter's Winchellisms ("Human interest always has a heart"), some of which were not even in the script. As an ABC publicist explained it: Columnist Winchell at 60 "has no trouble learning his lines, but he prefers to study their meanings and rephrase them...
...wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face...