Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special Branch have gradually stepped up their campaign against EOKA until, even many Britons are beginning to feel, it is close to being a counterterror. Last October the Cyprus Bar Council, a respected association of Cypriot attorneys trained in the British Inns of Court, set up a Human Rights Commission to investigate complaints of ill treatment under interrogation and damage to property during police searches...
Within a month Chairman Clerides had collected 40 signed complaints of torture during interrogations; he submitted them to the British Governor of Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding. The British administration brushed off the charges as typical EOKA atrocity propaganda. To show its low regard for the Human Rights Commission, it arrested one of Cyprus' leading lawyers and brought charges against others. But news of the commission's work spread to such influential British newspapers as the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian. In a House of Commons press conference a fortnight ago, two honorably discharged British soldiers...
...Bread," "Unemployed" or "Killed in Action" cease to have meaning. The same brooding line is repeated again and again only to appear arbitrary, in expression of similarly histrionics. Beckmann creates and maintains his impact with far greatr lucidity. "The People, Cafe" and "Society, 1915," coherently relate a tale of human confusion and shock, a state of mind which, fortunately, does not engulf the artist despite his intensity of conviction...
...almost painfully unsuccessful. Though Mr. Moore's direction seemed insensitive and obvious, it must be realized that his cast is almost completely inexperienced and he had only two weeks of rehearsal time. Mr. MacDonald's script is overwritten and forced. Instead of creating recognizable people in a recognizable human situation, he portrays a cast of perfectly typed characters for whom one can feel no sympathy or concern. The actors lack any feeling of dramatic reaction to one another. One can almost see them thinking about their cues. But, as some sage said, the best way to learn...
...second presentation, in contrast, is highly successful. William Kaufman, author of the adaptation, has written a creative and highly imaginative script from Fitzgerald's rather slim material. He demonstrates remarkable insight, subtlety, and compassion in handling human relationships as well as a keen ear for dialogue, and a sense of humor. Thomas Lumbard's direction of a fairly seasoned cast seems to come off quite well...