Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white face the dark eyes seemed unnaturally large. His slight frame, draped in a rakish tan gabardine suit, was slumped under the heaviness of fatigue; he had scarcely slept in four days. Yet he talked confidently, in the manner of a man who had learned some bitter lessons of human perfidy and folly, but had found that he could make his way. That same day he had gained a historic commitment from the U.S.. and got his security forces ready for devastating street riots that might be hurled against him by men made restless by circumstance, made passionate...
...mighty forward leap taken by the Sung artists over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon. In its vastness, human figures are reduced to mere dots of color. To his contemporaries, and to generations after, such scenes appeared as "the very truth of Heaven...
...pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone pavilion...
...shortrange, foolproof rocket was developed a few years ago for one of the armed services. The program was washed out before the production stage, but last week the Grand Central Rocket Co. of Mentone, Calif, came up with a new use for its rocket: fighting forest fires instead of human enemies...
...first novel, The Natural, Bernard Malamud brought a southpaw wackiness, plus a few touches of cloudy symbolism, to the subject of baseball (TIME. Sept. 8, 1952). In his second book he goes deeper into human nature, and the result is an even more impressive novel to delight admirers in the growing Malamud salon...