Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVER since the first H-bomb explosion (TIME, April 12, 1954), the world has become increasingly worried about the effect of radioactive fallout on the health of the human race. The question of stopping or limiting the testing of nuclear weapons is not purely scientific. It is also a military and moral problem, but most of the pertinent facts are scientific. For the opinions of the world's scientists on this disquieting matter, see SCIENCE, How Dangerous Are the Bomb Tests...
...usually breaks down if the stress signal, e.g., an electric shock, is merely increased in intensity, also if an unwonted time lag is left between the signal and the food that follows, or if signals are simply mixed. A fourth way, and to Dr. Sargant the most important for human analogy, is to wear a dog dowri by subjecting it to excessive work (on a treadmill), upsetting its stomach with irregular feedings or bad food, or inducing a fever. Even if the first three fail to break down a "calm imperturbable" dog, the fourth will work, according to Pavlov...
...Snapped Cleveland's Dr. Douglas D. Bond: "No group of psychiatrists need be told that the easiest people to deceive are ourselves." In this atmosphere. Heath was careful not to disclose anything about the beef extract's effects, if any. on the mental symptoms of human patients. One trouble, he conceded, was that his extracts did not always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between the lines of his report. One patient has had the beef-brain-extract injections for as long as 18 months, and another...
...fans. More than that, by common show-business consent, he is one of the truly great clowns. Apart from sheer technical mastery of pantomime, dialect, timing and the ad lib, Caesar has a creative gift for spoofing the stuffy and the phony and for finding endless fun in universal human foibles and frustrations. His career, which began as a $10-a-week saxophonist on New York's borsch circuit, has made him a millionaire. It has brought him a $100,000 Long Island home with swimming pool and three servants; a duplex Manhattan penthouse office suite that boasts...
Author Connells most frequent theme is the failure of human beings to communicate with one another. In the title story, a dusty professor in a dusty Midwest college tries desperately to explain the purpose of art to his attentive life class, which is embarrassed by life. The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge flashes a series of suburban snapshots of a well-intentioned matron who might just as well be calling to Mars for all the contact she makes with her friends, her relatives or herself. The Walls 'of Avila has fun with the return of the native: an expatriate...