Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the "Incident at Sasebo" letters [Dec. 16]: The Moms of America realize all their sonnies aren't darlings, but after months of uncomfortable pregnancies, hours of agonizing births, years of self-sacrificing and rearing, they are reluctant to turn over their offspring for lessons in proper human behavior to sadistic bullies who criticize parental upbringing in an attempt to justify their own unlawful and undignified antics. I'm no softie; the rod is well worn around our house...
...styles that make up the 20th century artistic breakthroughs and yet has a recognizable stamp of authority and color mastery all his own. Homage to Soldiers (see cut) owes a debt to Miro; his Four Bathers carries echoes of Picasso and Braque. But Pirandello's interest in the human form (he first studied to be a sculptor) keeps them well on this side of abstraction. Says Italian Critic Lionello Venturi: "He is the most human painter in postwar Italy...
...takes off with a velocity of about 10 ft. per second. The jumping muscle of the grasshopper, which weighs only one twenty-fifth of a gram, develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram of its own weight," or ten times the power of human muscles working at top speed. Says Hoyle: "The only known muscles in the whole animal world that equal this power are the shell-closing muscles of the clam-but the grasshopper's muscles work far more rapidly...
...appear in the eyes of the Madonna." The Syracuse police force added its weight to the evidence. When the figure was removed to headquarters, its tears were said to have wet the tunic of the policeman who carried it. Some were caught in a vial, analyzed chemically, identified as human tears...
...people with the Lord and received God's instructions to revive the ancient Canaanite rite of circumcision as a token of participation in that covenant. And it was also to a mountain that Abraham went, ready to perform the act that still stands as a supreme symbol of human faithfulness to God's command-the sacrifice of Isaac, his only...