Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich, and "Devil in the Flesh" lives up brilliantly to this specification. The film is based on the autobiographical novel "Le Diable an Corps" by Raymond Radiguet. It shows unflinchingly the great residue of immorality which often accompanies war, and depicts the effect of a chaotic, perturbed world on human emotions...
...also well represented. The London Spy goes into a lunatic asylum in 1699, and a New York Evening Post reporter reveals shameful prises conditions in 1917; the New York Times does a job a Boss Tweed in 1871, the Washington Post attacks the Colombians in 1946. There is human interest here, too, and sports, and animal stories--all the departments of the newspaper have their representatives...
...theory of color television is fairly simple. Even a black & white television picture is an optical illusion. All there is on the screen at any instant is a fast-moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames on a strip of movie film. Pictures or elements...
Divorced. William Saroyan, 41, literary show-off (he has admitted to being a genius) and champion of "the beautiful people" in short stories (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze), hit plays (The Time of Your Life) and novels (The Human Comedy); and Carol Stuart Marcus Saroyan, 24, New York socialite; after nearly seven years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Waldman's approach to the Button story is typical. He illustrates a routine account with several "human interest" incidents, and, probably because of Buttons proximity, uses more direct quotes than in any other chapter. Like the other articles, this one is well-documented and factually correct. Button was angered at an early ago by the prediction of an impatient teacher, who said he could never learn to be a figure skater. His determination to "show" this teacher ultimately led to his international success...