Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diseases. Dr. Wróblewski believes, may signal their onset by changes in the enzyme system before any other symptoms appear. This has already proved valuable in early detection of hepatitis, and Dr. Wróblewski has evidence of it in mouse leukemia. If the phenomenon is confirmed in human leukemia, it would mean that more effective treatment of this and perhaps other malignant diseases could begin sooner...
...Edward H. Gibson, "the human pincushion'," one of several who appeared in vaudeville at the turn of the century, let as many as 60 pins be stuck in him anywhere except the abdomen and groin. The climax of his show-business career was a crucifixion in which an assistant hammered a sharp spike through one of his hands, was ready to carry on with his other hand and feet, but the show had to be stopped because too many members of the audience fainted...
...trips in the solar system, but for interstellar voyages they are hopelessly slow. Conservative space enthusiasts accept the speed of light as the absolute speed limit in the material universe, and they know that even at this ultimate speed a spaceship can reach only nearby stars within a human generation. This seems to put a limit on man's interstellar mobility. But some optimistic scientists see hope in "time dilation." If a spaceship cruising toward a foreign star approaches the speed of light, its time, by relativity, will slow down. Its clocks will run slow by earth time...
...first two shibboleths are doctrinaire battle cries, but the third is the aim of the economist whose new focus for socialism is to prevent waste in human and material resources and strengthen Britain's economic health. This almost bureaucratic concern for efficiency has occasionally severed Gaitskell from his party's traditional concern for expanding social services. His long battle with Bevan, for example, began when, as Chancellor, Gaitskell instituted small charges for spectacles and false teeth in Britain's free health services. Since then, some of his Socialist opponents have professed that they see little difference between the economic policies...
...Vitelloni, youth is struggling much less with its burdens than with itself, and there is no attempt at a psychological explanation. It does a remarkable job of showing young people as human animals, and how they resolve the problem of co-existence in society. Getting along is the problem, not getting ahead. Unlike Jimmy Dean and Natalie Wood, they don't surrender; the Young and the Passionate simply slow down. Their responsibility, they realize, is in the end only to themselves, which idea, one can readily see, has probably not hit America...