Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey noted that the climax of a Harvard education was once a formal course in moral philosophy which constituted the main activity of the Senior year, and was taught by the President of the College. He described this course as "a comprehensive study of human nature, ranging over the whole field of physical, moral, and intellectual philosophy ... it dealt with the individual, the family, and the state; with law and freedom, with practical problems of economics and government, with property rights and slavery, and with questions posed in generation after generation concerning belief ... it never lost sight...
...fiction series and not a documentary," says its producer, and he is only too right. Challenge is a mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned melodrama. Theoretically, the show deals with a Government scientist (George Nader) studying the limits of human endurance in dangerous situations. Actually, it presents such high-flown nonsense as a story of top-rank researchers sitting out a nuclear war in an atomic submarine and suddenly tumbling to some old problems such as the extraction of oxygen from sea water...
...Devil's Advocate is Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a dry, self-contained English priest whose sense of vocation has been all but choked under the dust of years in Vatican offices. As he sees himself, he is one of God's empty vessels, a decent man barren of human warmth and love. Furthermore, he is dying of cancer, and the thought panics him: "It was his profession to prepare other men for death; it shocked him to be so unready...
...troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might be merely sordid and sensational; he keeps them in the perspective of human frailty and suffering. As Meredith probes on, the proofs of Nerone's possible sainthood mount-his conversion and surrender to God, his healing miracles, his selfless care of the villagers, his martyrdom at the hands of the Communists. But Blaise Meredith, brimming with a new-found humanity, cares less and less...
...cruelly realistic portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor that shows the aging lovers no more mercy than the hand of time has done. Yet by seeing them as they are, the picture also concedes to them a human quality that the society pages have failed to report...