Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to get that way on their own; now they are put on tranquilizers. As for old dogs, they are taught new tricks, according to the latest scientific principles of geriatrics and psychology. In the last two decades, veterinary medicine in the U.S. has made giant forward strides paralleling human practice ever more closely in medication and surgery. For an account of how vets and pets are getting along, see MEDICINE, Veterinary Revolution...
...this week. Their posture was rigidly prescribed: each had one foot on the bridge and one foot on Turkish soil, one hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier between Russia and the rest of the world (save for a small, frozen strip of Norway) that...
...stuff. Nichols and May also did a racy, offbeat skit called "The Dawn of Love or The Moon Also Rises in an Automobile!" Scratching her ear and nervously shoving her sleeve up and down her forearm, Elaine admired the "suicidally beautiful" lake while Mike talked of other things. "Every human being has got certain natural urges, and I've got some," he began...
...ROCK, by Francis King (248 pp.; Pantheon; $3.50), is based on the fact that the human comedy is seldom humane. British Novelist Francis King, 34, pitches his inhumane comedy on the rise and fall of a young Greek spiv of the postwar dead-beat generation. The book's larger theme is the old motif of American innocence v. European corruption. Reflected in the golden eye of a Mediterranean setting, what is sordid and depraved becomes corrosively hilarious. Spiro Polymerides is a sun-baked peasant Apollo. He is taken up by an arty, effeminate, high-minded official...
...novel's end, this social Spirochete has destroyed or degraded each life with which he has come in contact. Spiro may be a human parasite, but at least he is true to his instinctual self. The Irvines and Helen Bristows are spiritual nomads, Author King implies, with no selves to be true to. They sleepwalk through reality, wrapped in romantic visions and do-good illusions, until (paraphrasing Eliot) human voices wake them and they drown...