Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guillen noted that however mystical St. John of the Cross may have been, the three poems considered only as poetry are not mystical, for "his terms of reference are unceasingly human...
...hardly say that Jesus was a mild reformer-after all, he made a lot of people angry, and he wound up on a cross. Nor would I say that he was primarily interested in changing social conditions; he was after something deeper and more difficult-changing the human spirit...
...finger on why Compulsion fails to be large and liberating drama when he said that in a good play everyone must seem in the right. For the two killers this is impossible, less because of how hideous their crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case-and its causes -remain too special to expand into...
...Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is presented as a very special breed of horse opera-something the publicists call a "people western." What the moviemakers are trying to say is that the stagecoach trade should hang onto its ten-gallon hats because the characters portrayed are actually intended to resemble real human beings. They don't. Oats is oats, and the only distinctive thing about this bin of them is that they happen to be of a right good grade...
...spiral of official truth spins into reverse. Simochka, it appears, was right all along. T.T. is back in the center of his absurd universe, and the bribes fly back from the terrified recipients. Thus Novelist Grinioff extracts ribald comedy from his central theme: under tyrannous government, humanity exists in the corruption of its officials. It is human crookedness that can best the inhuman game...