Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most purposes, the Advocate begins on page 16 with three stories written in Mr. Bush's writing course this summer. Two of these are quite short stories by Mary Montgomery, Courage of the Earth and The Boy and the Lady. Miss Montgomery creates an understandable human situation in her love affair in the well-titled Courage of the Earth, one which anticipates and leads to the inevitable climactic moment, only to be dragged down to the level of an inverted dirty joke by the last sentences ... "Then she did something the courage for which she hadn't imagined...
...North, which has its own segregation faults, watched and smoldered with resentment. A Long Island summer-theater audience heard South Pacific Heroine Nellie Forbush say she was from Little Rock, stopped the performance with three minutes of furious boos and hisses. A drugstore clerk in Philadelphia admitted to human dilemma: "I don't like Negroes and God knows I'd hate to have to live with them-but I can't help thinking how awful it would be if my little girls had to go through a mob to be cursed and spit upon." Said a Negro...
...famed bacteriologist Dr. Camille Guérin, 84, TB Fighter Rosenthal records the disappointments attending early efforts to perfect a TB vaccine, then the surprising success of France's late Dr. Albert Calmette, with Guérin collaborating, in attenuating a strain of tubercle bacilli taken from human patients by growing them in cattle. The trouble was that the vaccine, now universally known as BCG (for Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin), got a bad name early. The first enthusiasts made exaggerated claims for it, and in the late 1920s, virulent tubercle bacilli were accidentally substituted...
...decision that might mean the difference between peace and war? How do you reconcile the doctrine of massive retaliation with the Christian ethic?) Though NBC rudely cut the Bible-quoting Secretary off in the middle of an answer (to plug other NBC shows), the net result was good human drama, "After all," says Agronsky, "this is show business. The interviewer is part actor and must work in dramatic terms...
...will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Vannevar Bush, Walter Gropius. Next week Graff himself steps in to interview David Ben-Gurion in the library of his Tel Aviv home. His basic idea: to provide "a uniform panorama of human leadership in the first half of the century...