Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poisoned pen and spit out their venom for the curious and unbelieving to scoff at and ridicule? I am sure that the God who gave Miss Baldwin the talent to write must be wide-eyed with pleasure at the results. He might also be tempted to suddenly appear in human form and ask for Author Baldwin's autograph...
Rather than being narrow, classical civilization extended for fifteen hundred years, included two basic literary tongues and the basic thought of almost every every sphere of human knowledge, and has left a profound imprint on all succeeding cultures. Both modern democracy and Marxist communism have their theoretical origins in classical thought...
...profoundest thinkers on the troubles of our times have pointed out a peril involved in scientific animal experimentation which does not clearly face the meaning of the physical torture it is based upon, and that such residual indifference to suffering is a breeder for the gas chamber and human lamp-shade...
...read in Life magazine that the government bombards animals with gamma rays. They imprison monkeys and mice in cramped cages. They starve cats to death and chill dogs in freezing tanks of water. I ask you--do such practices promote human welfare...
This modern-day morality tale of three men down and out in Mexico searching for gold in the remotest hinterlands might be classified as picaresque and episodic, because it depends on external events and travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three...