Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most amazing true stories about the labyrinthine ways of the human mind concerns a woman known as Eve White, who went Jekyll and Hyde one better by having three distinct personalities, and changing from one to another with dramatic abruptness. Her case history, fragments of which appeared in 1954 before her treatment was concluded, is now fully told by her two psychiatrists. See MEDICINE, All About...
...judged order, Déjoie's prestige began to drop. As it fell, up went the fortunes of another candidate, Daniel Fignole, a leftist spellbinder with a strong latent hold on the lowly blacks of Port-au-Prince. Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional President a neutral...
Good Listeners. "If a joke lays a complete egg," says George Burns, "we might put in two or three people to carry it along." The laugh canner's purest technique (Ozzie & Harriet) is to skip the fallible human element altogether and, as the trade has it, "lay the laugh track in cold." Says Producer Alex Gottlieb: "A good film editor can lay in a laugh track from the library that comes out sounding more authentic than live laughter. After all, people aren't expert laughers, but the sound effects man is an expert listener...
...poetry editor of the Saturday Review, a new book of verse by Anne Morrow Lindbergh-The Unicorn and Other Poems-came across his desk last month. Critic Ciardi communed with Poet Ciardi and then, in 1,500 sulphuric words, poured damnation on it. "I can certainly sense the human emotion that sends Mrs. Lindbergh to the writing." wrote Ciardi, "but of her poems I have, in duty, nothing but contempt to offer...
...women wandered without let or hindrance in a network of social connections that ran from the tip of Scotland to the toe of Italy. They toiled not, neither did they spin (except in diplomatic circles), and Robert, Léon and Tzara struck them as being a lot more human than the middle and lower classes. The broken, frontier-barred Europe of today is the "legacy'' they left behind; their saddened heirs look back upon them not with the anger of indignation but with the hungry envy that an upright sparrow might feel for a bone-lazy peacock...