Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regardless of our low opinion of the dictator, his visit may be a very important part of our last civilized chance to work out the survival of the human race. Every year that we can talk instead of shoot, the U.S.S.R. moves inevitably toward Western civilization...
...Joseph Melnick after a study of such vaccines. Melnick told the fifth Congress of Biological Standardization in Jerusalem that, while there have been relatively few cases of paralytic polio among those vaccinated with live-virus vaccines, some of the virus strains, after they pass through the human body, become more virulent. It is possible that contact with virus-infected excrement could spread polio to unvaccinated persons. His recommendation: until the stability of the virus can be fully determined, live-virus vaccine use should be limited to small test groups that can be isolated for 30 to 40 days...
...empress who is unable to cast a shadow and hence to bear children. In search of a shadow, she persuades a dyer's wife to surrender her own, and thus renounce her power to bear children, for luxuries and an imaginary romance. In a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange for another's misery. Moving between the human and the spirit world, the opera blazes with magic effects...
DEODORANTS. "Camera shots or angles which show or almost show the human armpit seem especially distasteful...
...terminology frequently has overtones of sexual innuendo. The 'ectoplasm' technique by which the garment is shown alone in motion probably is the least offensive demonstration method. The employment of an arrow, a dotted line or a pointer to show specific features is far preferable to the human hand...