Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them. Given a margin of error for the contestants' human foibles, the producers seem to be able to control virtually everything-except their own fears of losing their audience...
...some decided ideas on the subject. "Usually," he said, "Christ in majesty is shown with a crown and scepter. I rejected that. I rejected the conventional symbols, the stigmata, the crown of thorns. I told them I would not use them. I wanted to make him divine, but human." The cathedral authorities agreed...
...blonde and Vera Pearce as the battle-ax catch perfectly the right emphatic, externalized manner. Bert Lahr's performance is harder to appraise: he is in a sense too good for French farce without always being entirely right for it. His clowning has always a certain human appeal; his zany genius is rooted in character and a little disrupted by plot. His own timing is flawless, but too personal for pacing flat, stylized farce. He doubtless gives the play something extra. But if Hotel Paradiso lacks the sustained period-farce verve of last season's The Matchmaker...
While more efficient plants are counted on to increase productivity, other factors are involved. Many an industrialist feels that management must do a sharper job of managing than ever before, must do more in the field of human relations, of incentives, and goals. Labor also has a big job, notably to cooperate with management to assure efficient use of new equipment...
...Catholics here?" he asked, coming down to Friday breakfast in a Catholic country house. "Very well, I shall help myself to a large slice of ham." Proof of the Catholic Church's divine inspiration, he once said, "might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight...