Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neal Gross, a sociologist whose special interests are human relations problems in educational organizations and role theory, has been appointed Professor of Education. He came to Harvard in 1951 as lecturer in sociology and education, and has been an associate professor since 1956. As Director of Harvard's School Executive Studies, Dr. Gross published "Who Runs Our Schools?" last year...
Miss Monroe, whose intellectual and whimsical talents are fully realized, learns two lessons. The first involves her relationship to the visually sensate world, and her heroic triumph of practicality over vanity. Through the man she marries, she peers into that inscrutable heart of darkness that is human nature, and discovers the horrible intertwining of good and evil that...
...mine of visceral sensation: the case of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, as told in a story by Donald Taylor. In the last century, it seems, the teachers of anatomy in Edinburgh were forced to deal with "resurrectionists" for the dissection subjects they needed. Two of these "vicious human vermin of the gutters of the city" find it more convenient to murder than to dig up their stock in trade ready-killed, and familiar faces begin to show up on the dissecting tables, faces that had been seen alive, laughing and talking, a few hours previously...
...Boris Karloff; perhaps, looked at differently, one for the Marx Brothers. It serves Thomas' purposes because of what has been made of the character of the doctor who receives the bodies: a man of great stature, at once a cold misanthrope and a burning fanatic in the cause of human amelioration, with the necessity raging inside him to alienate the spiritually fat-bottomed of the universe (that is, most of us) by telling unpleasant truths...
...frequently heaped up. Thomas' words sometimes cast a glow, a light never seen on land or sea, even on the murderers (though never on the murders); but it is Doctor Rock's reaction, in the scene where before a phantom audience he lectures on the dissection of the human conscience, that proves that melodrama can be used for purposes of poetry...