Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exasperation, Ike diagrammed a wise man's views on leadership. "I am not one of the desk-pounding type that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him. he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone...
...fourth in the pine-paneled hall. Then a defense pathologist discovered bits of flesh on the ceiling, found fragments of Violet's jacket in the gaping hole in the couch. If Violet shot her husband-as she insisted-when he was on the couch, how account for the human tissue on the ceiling and Violet's jacket threads in the couch? And had she really aimed and fired a shotgun at herself? And, if her story was correct that she fired three times, who reloaded the gun and fired the fourth shot? Finally, Lawyer Weyer asked himself again...
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor Emeritus, agreed that TV is valuable for close-up demonstrations. Chafee, who gives a course on "Human Rights and the Constitution," also agreed that the lack of audience contact is a defect. "I never gave a straight lecture at the College," he explained. "I always let the students ask questions. But on TV I can never be sure I've gotten my point across, and I lack the benefit of class opinion...
...technical faults are insignificant beside the dishonesty of the whole show. DeMille, instead of the magnificently human Moses of the Bible who, about to die, exhorts his people with the words, "Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their high places," gives us only a lily-livered little liberal who orates vaguely about freedom; instead of God, only an off-screen voice; instead of religious fervor, only sentimentality...
...Eliot, however, have been both informative and encouraging. If the University would establish more visiting lectureships for artists as opposed to scholars, students would benefit from the different point of view, if only as a contrast with that of the scholar. Besides a possibly finer sensitivity to human problems which the mature artist attains through the creative experience, he offers the student a conception of the pertinence of art as well as of the possibility of using knowledge creatively and not merely passively. If such men as Aaron Copland, W. H. Auden, William Faulkner, and Arthur Miller could be encouraged...