Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their deaths as "correctly" as to a dinner party. Only the chief character, Captain Stanhope (admirably played last week, as ten years ago, by Colin Keith-Johnston), jangled and jittery after three years of war, with horror gnawing away at habit, becomes a creature of conflict and a real human being...
John Sloan's place in contemporary art is so thoroughly accepted that he is in danger of being taken for granted. Gallery-goers find it hard to realize that his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War-I Manhattan were damned as paintings of "The Ashcan School" when his group of realists held their first show in 1908. Last week he summed himself up: "I never thought of one of my good pictures as art while painting it. Whether it was art or not, it was what I wanted to do. . . . I am grateful to have lived this long...
...much more stupid at maze running than normal, healthy rats. You would conclude that rats with the best biological endowment are the most intelligent rats, and that your afflicted, stupid rat race was headed toward an evolutionary dead end. But if you made the same observations and distinctions about human beings, you would make yourself unpopular...
...about it and then do it before it is too late. That was his message in Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and that is still his message in Twilight of Man, published last week.* "Here," says Dr. Hooton, "is more raucous crying in the wilderness. . . . Human behavior has continued to deteriorate." Hooton feels that his is a voice in a wilderness because: 1) men like to think of themselves not as imperfect and unstable animal organisms but as vessels of godlike aspiration and achievement; and 2) no prophet is less heeded by the man-in-the-street...
Hooton 's view of modern Germany: "[Germany] repeatedly threatens the ruin of Western civilization, because this nation is composed of organic blends which, for some unknown genetic reasons, combine marvelous understanding of mechanical techniques with utter obtusity in human relations, and which are of a suggestibility so extreme that they are more easily possessed by devils than were the Gadarene swine...