Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When you come right down to it, The Bridge on the River Kwai is only a war melodrama. Its only valid "meaning" is as a glorification of human courage. Its primary appeal is not to the understanding or the esthetic sense, but to whatever in us is receptive to sheer physical action. But as such, it is a very fine movie, a highly effective blend of tension and irony...
...examining free Germany's seeming current lack of intellectual and cultural production, Conant emphasized that three things must be remembered: 1) the nostalgia with which the activities during the Weimar Republic are viewed; 2) the intense human and material construction taking place in Germany today; and, 3) the period that followed the Weimar Republic...
Conant prefaced his lecture by describing it as "an extremely personal viewpoint for which my only qualification is a knowledge of human nature." In the latter part of the talk, he discussed the importance of Germany's schools in determining the way educated Germans think about the past and envision the future of their land...
Rumors about the experiment with a human being began circulating in Moscow about a week...
MOSCOW, Jan. 6--The Soviet Union has launched an experimental rocket 300 kilometers (186.42) miles into the atmosphere with a human aboard, reliable sources here said tonight. The man aboard the rocket parachuted successfully to earth, these sources said...