Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account is thus personal rather than institutional. White says, "the Senate is in a sense a high assembly but in a deeper sense it is a great and unique human consensus of individual men." And so he looks at the Senate, ninety-six inscrutable prima donnas, "with all its strengths and weaknesses rather as one would try to deal with the story of an extraordinary and significant...
Cyrus Durgin (Globe) said, "I can't say exactly what the play is about. But I can say it is not about life with aspirations and hopes, with love and fullness and meaning . . . it is blasphemy against the human spirit. . . . Furthermore, the language simply does not communicate to the listener." Several members of the audience rightly objected; for hope is one thing that is never extinguished in the play. One Harvard senior compared Pozzo's last speech with a speech in Macbeth for communicative power. Mr. Myerberg then had Rex Ingram deliver the speech again. It was obvious afterwards that...
Methuselah of Space. Instead of sending a human subject into space at close to the speed of light and comparing him physically on his return with stay-at-home contemporaries, Dr. Crawford uses mu mesons. When these subatomic particles are at rest in relation to the earth, they disintegrate in an average earth time of less than two-millionths of a second. But when they are created by cosmic rays hitting atomic nuclei high in the atmosphere, they seem to have comparative immortality. Many of them reach the earth's surface more than ten miles below, although their short...
...most eloquent, hard-hitting critics of the ratings are the services themselves-when speaking of their competitors. Nielsen, for example, argues that human error, bias and forgetfulness work against the accuracy of the others' methods. He says also that their samples are usually unreliable. In special surveys, he has tested the accuracy of the other methods by the yardstick of his own and says that all three fall wide of the mark. Nielsen's rivals-who also rap each other's techniques-seize on the fact that Nielsen's national system measures the tuning of sets...
...these books make clear that the battle was between the armed faith of Christian Europe and a cruel empire whose ceremonies seemed to the Spanish soldiers a bloody, blasphemous parody of the Mass. Inland, the conquistadors first met the strange Mexican-Indian priesthood, men whose hair was caked with human blood and whose temple floors were clogged with it. The Christians had no hesitation in breaking their idols. Even then they had no notion that in the city of Tenochtitlán as many as 20,000 human sacrifices had been made in one ceremony. Victims stood in queues miles...