Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser, says one caustic Englishman, "displays that unmistakable mark of the second-rate, the belief that human affairs can be reduced to simple, single causes." In a safe in his office he keeps a neat file of all his main problems, with the essentials of each summarized as briefly as his staff can get them down. When the dictator has to face a problem, he writes down the considerations in three columns on a piece of paper. In one column he sets down what he wants to do, in the next the obstacles, in the third his possible courses...
...Egypt's dynamic young leader argue earnestly that the country's troubles lay, not in Palestine, but at home−where a misgoverned and exploited population, grown from 10 million to 22 1/2 million in 50 years, needed land, three square meals, and some intimation of human dignity. With every intention of basing its Middle East policy on a revitalized Egypt, the U.S. poured $25.9 million in economic aid into Nasser's development program, helped him get the British out of their Canal Zone base, and sent Ambassador Henry Byroade, a West Pointer who could work closely...
...before a Cracow courtroom in one of the most bizarre murder cases in Poland's history. The Polish Communist press, usually confined to turgid polemics, devoted column after column to full and sensational reports by 80 reporters covering the trial ("It is refreshing to read again about ordinary human frailties," said one Pole). Some spectators paid as much as 2,000 zlotys (three months' pay for a workman) for a black-market ticket to get into the packed courtroom. Mazurkiewicz, the center of all the attention, is a 48-year-old ex-army officer who had a reputation...
...last week, he attributed the thumping advance sales to guilt feelings on the part of adults about their lack of mathematical knowledge. "That's probably why they're buying my book in such obscene quantities," he speculated. "They may feel that if they can make some human contact with this terrifying subject, they'll be able to find some entrance, some passage through...
...McCleery has a formula, it is "selective realism," i.e., showing "with either delicacy or violence" what happens to a human being in a crisis. His favorite techniques are screen-filling closeups ("If an actor is talking, what's more important than his mouth...