Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mindszenty wrote his last pastoral letter. On the envelope that held it, he scribbled the now famous note to his clergy, advising them that any "confession" that might appear some day over his signature would only be the result of "human frailty." In other letters, he warned that he might be drugged and thus tricked into confessing what he had not committed...
...Full Time . . . "From the very hour he was taken away in the black of night from his home, his flock, his aged mother, Cardinal Mindszenty became the victim of torturings and druggings that put him beyond the reach or realm of human help. It was he himself who said to me, when he was the honored guest here less than two years ago, 'My enemies can take from me no more than my life, and that has already been given...
...more neurologists learn about the human brain, the more it looks like an electrical calculating machine. And the more engineers learn about an artificial calculating device, the more it resembles the human brain. Last week, Neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch of the University of Illinois tried to describe the brain in purely electrical terms to a New York meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Exit Into Sunset. Yenan's most remarkable form of entertainment was the "living newspaper" in which amateur mimes enacted current events. Sample: General Eisenhower invading Normandy atop a human landing barge (see cut). Sugar-coated propaganda also pervaded the Saturday night dances regularly held in a Yenan apple orchard at which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock...
...Spoke of human gentleness under...