Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noted the "amazing" charge by Soviet Dictator Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S. efforts to develop a "clean" H-bomb amounted to "a stupid thing," replied promptly that "avoidance of mass human destruction in an atomic war is and has been a prime objective of the Administration no less than the aim of eliminating the possibility of war itself. Such efforts-to which the U.S. is dedicated-are and will be continuing...
...this gives us a chance to study parts of the mechanism." He hopes that his tortured eggs will teach physicians how to counteract prenatal infections which sometimes result in the birth of defective children. As the world moves deeper into the atomic age, there is increasing danger to human embryos from radiation. Dr. Wolff's experiments may lead to discoveries which will minimize the effects of such radiation on generations yet unborn...
Chicago's sawed-off, white-fringed Ivan Le Lorraine Albright is noted for painting old bottles, dead fish, seaweed, rot and decay with a relentlessly realistic brush. When human beings squirm into his paintings, he makes them look as if they had just been removed from a freshly opened grave. Now, at 60, Albright has painted a commissioned portrait (his first) of a woman-alive...
...play, in a lively new English translation by Germaine and Marston Balch, bears resemblance to Moliere's classic Imaginary Invalid in that Romains, like Moliere, uses medicine as a foil to pierce the frailties of human nature and lay bare the mechanisms which dominate the bourgeois mind...
Since an actor has his lines furnished to him, just what does he create? Strasberg answered, "An actor creates character; he creates a new human being." From the 18th century he cited the example of David Garrick's interpretation of King Lear, in which Garrick "showed for the first time the whole process though which a person actually goes insane." And from the 19th century he mentioned Edmund Kean's conception of Shylock as an Italian Jew only 38 years old, and said he wished somebody else would dare to try this approach sometime...