Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does not necessarily help genius." A painter of contorted, distorted, sad human beings, Buffet is as disillusioned and almost as popular in France as his friend, Novelist Francoise Sagan (see MILESTONES). The opening of his recent retrospective show in Paris, which attracted a total of 40,000 visitors, nearly turned into a riot as his fans mobbed him. Another gallery is now showing seven large...
Below them on the stage, the cast-J.B. and his family-appears ("Well, that's our pigeon," says Mr. Zuss). As the agony of J.B. unfolds before them, Nickles and Zuss constantly break into the action with a double dialectic-Divine Creator v. Destroyer, human hope (flavored with priggishness) v. despair (flavored with compassion). Sings Nickles...
...Cleveland Plain Dealer has added two topical syndicated columns: "You and Your Job" and "Family Finance." A five-part recession roundup filed by the Associated Press last week was used by most papers-including many that maintain there is no recession. Though it had yet to focus on human angles of the slump in its own backyard, the encyclopedic New York Times reached across the world to report repercussions of U.S. economic pangs...
When SEAC has gained enough experience, the bureau hopes that it will do many important seeing jobs faster and better than humans can. One project is to make it produce contour maps from air photographs. It will do such monotonous jobs 24 hours a day without getting tired or bored. Human factors will have little effect on the seeing-eye computer. It may even learn in time to search through a rogues' gallery and pick out a single face. It will judge by the stable features and will not be misled by beards, scars or other embellishments...
Nevertheless, on his publisher's orders, Editor Gable shows up at school, where he learns a thing or two he doesn't like: that culture, broadly understood, is the only thing that makes human beings any better than animals, and that when a man hates cultured people it is usually because he secretly feels they are better than he is. Clever fellow that he is, Gable also learns that Day is a girl, and he soon persuades her he needs special instruction. "I'm afraid we'll have to work together at night," she says...