Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high living and weaving perfect webs of traditional pattern. Dr. Bercel then gives it no food for a day. In the evening he offers it a doctored fly-one that he has killed without damaging its form and from which he has drained the blood. He replaces this with human blood serum taken from schizophrenic patients. Since the dead fly does not buzz or struggle, Dr. Bercel fools the spider into thinking that it is alive by twanging a tuning fork (middle C) near the web. The spider runs out, sinks its fangs into the fly and greedily sucks...
...with serum taken from patients suffering from the catatonic form of schizophrenia. The spiders seem to become catatonic too. They move listlessly and spend much time in their houses; the webs they spin are like the last vestiges of ragged lace. The spiders' reaction, like that of human volunteers injected with schizophrenic serum (TIME, May 14), shows that this disease is associated with a disorder in blood chemistry...
...some success by erecting a "filter barrier" around grafted glands, protecting them from the recipient's antibodies. On the basis of such studies, Dr. James B. Dealy Jr. predicted last week that the time is not far off when a replacement organ will be transplanted into an ailing human being with little more difficulty than" it takes to change a tire...
...title sounded harmless, but of 4,500 Southern Protestant clergymen invited, only 300 attended the First Conference on Christian Faith and Human Relations, held in Nashville last week by the Tennessee Council of Churches and the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. Those who came and many who did not knew their reasons well: to the troubled South, human relations mean race relations, and to many white Southern pastors, the No. 1 problem is how to preach Christianity while Jim Crow sits in the congregation...
...GAME AND THE GROUND, by PeterVansittart (87pp.; Abelard-Schuman; $3), deals with the war wreckage that can never wholly be cleared away -the human ruins. Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant. Around a camp of brutalized children and their would-be healers in a thinly disguised German locale, British Author Peter Vansittart has fashioned a melancholy novel that is sometimes static but frequently moving. Two brothers, Eric and the nameless first-person narrator of the story, have turned their war-ravaged country estate, Kasalten, into a rehabilitation center...