Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marine Pfc. Thomas Pratt escaped in disguise through a rear door of the chapel while SDS students and members of the resistance planned to protect Pratt and the other servicemen in sanctuary by surrounding them with a human wall...
...procedure involved not only the animal's liver but its entire circulatory system, heart and all. And the doctors did not kill the animal first. To prepare the baboon, a robust 57-lb. male, they put it under an anesthetic, then replaced its entire blood supply with human blood of the same type as Mrs. Voogt's. Nearly five hours later, after the animal's heartbeat and circulation had stabilized, the baboon was ready for the hookup with Mrs. Voogt. The surgeons deftly led a tube from an artery in the woman's right arm, above...
...most impressive of the lot. This is Actor John Cassavetes' second effort as both writer and director. He spent six months shooting the film-mostly in his own Los Angeles house-and almost three years editing it. The result is a 130-minute study of human pain, shame, cruelty and crudity of such abrasive intensity that it constitutes more of an experience than a show...
...Rather, it has developed precisely as a good many current dreams predict: a detritosphere, made up of atomized waste products and the debris of innumerable satellite disasters, smothers the globe. The sun has been stifled, the sea polluted. The earth itself is encrusted with a layer of rubble. The human race has retreated into sealed, windowless cells serviced by tube and tap. All outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind of television, which provides everything at the press of a button-from sex to seaside holidays, from the most exquisite physical sensation to the tang and even...
...flies and choking, poisonous vapors-holds for her an absorbing and mysterious fascination. Even the contaminated sea is infinitely more exciting, and more satisfying, than the blue waters, golden sands and fake sea spray of her synthetic seaside at home. Her first sexual contacts and her first experience of human brutality have a weird and frightening intensity...