Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theme. Mental illness is no novel subject for the movies. Hollywood has long since taken note of modern man's discovery, and worship, of the subconscious-that obscure force which has become more fashionable than God's or man's will as an explanation of all human acts. Various types of mental sickness (amnesia, etc.) have been used and used again as springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague...
...camera first discovers Virginia Cunningham sitting on a bench in the sun. A disembodied voice asks her where she is. She does not know. The camera, following her inside a hulking grey building, discovers (as if through her bewildered eyes) the locked doors, the prison bars, the caged human figures. Casually it takes in such alarming details as a woman giggling to herself, another sitting on the floor. Later, it surveys the rows of beds in the dormitory at night, when Virginia first realizes where she is, while the soundtrack weaves a chilling pattern of the weeping, moaning and plaintive...
...Chubby in build and cheery in face, Sir Edward likes human beings, and says it will be a terrible wrench to leave his closest colleagues in the British Civil Service [since 1939, he has been Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]. If he's climbed to any eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace...
...inch or so in their Sisyphean progress? Much work remained to be done before anyone could be sure. Said Warburg, after discussing the action of the anti-enzyme: "It must now be found out by experiment whether such an anti-enzyme will inhibit the growth of tumors in the human body...
...hell of their power? . . . Should we not see that 'God's design' therefore does not mean the existence of the church in the world, its task in relation to the world's disorder, its outward and inward activity as an instrument for the amelioration of human life, or finally the result of this activity in the Christianization of all humanity and, consequently, the setting up of an order of justice and peace embracing our whole planet? That 'God's design' does not mean something like a Christian Marshall plan...