Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia-born, bulbous Ollie sang on showboats while studying law, eventually wended his way via vaudeville villainry to Hollywood where he met (1919) skinny, sad-eyed Stan Laurel, onetime understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Two of America's few genuinely creative comedians, interested more, as Hardy once said, in "human appeal" than in "straight clownish antics," they teamed up in 1927, and as bumblingly chivalrous misfits strove ineffectually to solve hopeless problems (e.g., while struggling to get a grand piano over a narrow suspension bridge across a horrifying chasm between two Alpine peaks, they would encounter, midway, a gorilla). Hardy...
...streets of his Andalusian town of Moguer and revels in the beauties of the dramatic Spanish landscape that surrounds it. Sickly and reserved, Jiménez talks to Platero, pours out his poetic cries of delight and despair as he witnesses the beauties of nature and groans at the human condition...
...reader a charming and shrewd picture of Spanish life that has the delicacy of a pure lyric, the relentless candor of a reel of film. At the end, Platero is dead, victim of some poisonous root, and it is plain that Jiménez has lost a friend no human can replace...
There are two fragments of hope. A scientist named Jorgensen believes that radioactivity may be decreasing in the icefields of the arctic, holding out a promise of human survival in the polar regions. And a radio transmitter near Seattle has been intermittently sending a meaningless jumble of signals. Commander Towers takes his submarine north to get the answers. He proves Jorgensen wrong, and finds that the Seattle transmission is caused by a freak mechanical accident. He returns to Australia and death...
Most farmers and farm leaders sense that changes in federal farm programs are overdue. A lot of farmers, and members of Congress too, favor a "two-price" plan under which 1) farmers would get 100% of parity for commodities sold for human use in the U.S., but 2) would get the free-market price for animal feeds and commodities sold for exports (a scheme sure to bring yowls against dumping from foreign countries...