Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to give a topical horror story broad human appeal, the show at worst falls at times into cliché; it does not start with it. Distinguished merit West Side Story lacks; but its distinguishing merit, its putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history...
Uptown Gossip. Amidst its planned madness, WILY also has exhibited civic spirit-it helped to get children placed in foster homes, campaigned for improvement in the Negro community. From its pigeon perch on top of a fruit market, WILY collected neighborhood news by offering listeners $5 for tips on human-interest stories or uptown gossip. "Radio isn't like it used to be,'' says balding, Baltimore-born Manager Tannen, who once worked as a chorus boy in Mae West's Catherine Was Great. "It has become like wallpaper, a companion...
Asahi devoted 10,000 words to the plight of Japan's 3,000,000 eta (literally: "very dirty") untouchables. The eta class, also known as hinin (not human), includes most of the Japanese nation's leatherworkers, shoemakers, butchers and slaughterhouse workers. Though the etas were formally abolished as a caste in 1871 under the Meiji Restoration and the word itself was removed from dictionaries, the prejudices that surrounded them survived almost unabated from the days when they were forbidden to pray at village shrines, go outdoors between sundown and sunrise, or marry outside their class...
...served on the Russian front and spent years in a Russian P.W. camp. His expressive Dead Forest (opposite) re-creates the world in terms of imagined structure, much as Klee did with fantasy. It is harsh and foreboding. After Germany's tortured half-century it would be misreading human nature to expect it to be otherwise...
...Observatory. The astronomer in charge of the balloon-borne observatory, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild of Princeton University, did not go aloft with his telescope. To keep him alive and functioning at extreme altitude would have been too difficult. And besides, as he explained, even the most careful motions of a human operator would destroy the serene stability of the balloon...