Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle-of-the-roader, Lecomte de Noüy, who was a brilliant scientist, adduced scientific proof that human life cannot have begun spontaneously, that there must be a Supreme Being. Since this evidence points to His being our Maker, why not attribute to Him capability for a loftier point of view than any of those possessed by man? Is it possible that He created him to love, and that the knowledge intelligent men of science have amassed is intended to be only a tool to that...
Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...
...York Drama Critics Circle met last week and managed, with little dissent, to pick its favorites of the season. The best U.S. play: Death of a Salesman, a deeply human story of a typical American who so craves success that he is fatally crushed by failure (TIME, Feb. 21). The best foreign play: The Madwoman of Chaillot, an enchanting fantasy about a wacky countess who, Pied Piper-like, rids Paris of its human rats (TIME, Jan. 10). The best musical: South Pacific, a sort of child of Madame Butterfly by Mister Roberts, brilliantly produced with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
There are terrifying scenes of human suffering in "Monsieur Vincent. Hundreds of pitiful creatures press hopefully into the St. Lazare hospital; the priest cannot bear to turn them away, even though the mission is overcrowded and the charity workers are overburdened. Saint Vincent finds reason for bitterness elsewhere as well: the society ladies from whom he gets financial support are frivolous and patronizing; his own loyal co-workers at St. Lazare shrink from providing aid for a child "conceived...
...animal act is hampered by the only human member of its cast, a shricking and billous individual who will undoubted drive his canine assistants to the A.S.P.C.A.. The chorus line is a fine group of young ladies when at ease, but when in motion these girls seem to be giving a mass imitation of the mating dance of the Kodiak bear...