Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested. They had to admit that Ohishi was right: starches were bad for him, and bread was the worst. Dr. Tsuneo Takada, 30, took samples of Ohishi's digestive juices. In them microbiologists found a flourishing growth of a yeastlike fungus, Candida (or Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infections, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without causing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bowel there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multiplied, and busily fermented carbohydrates to form alcohol...
...Human personalities are infinitely diverse and defy all efforts to stuff them into neat pigeonholes, but the classifiers never tire of trying. Latest classifier is Hungarian-born Psychoanalyst Michael Balint, 62, who has lived in Britain since 1939. His basic breakdown: people are either ocnophils or philobats...
...exiled him. But it was in a 1938 Old Vic production of Coriolanus that a stamping, ranting Olivier bulled his way to fame. This time his performance is subtler. His Coriolanus is prickly in triumph, venomous in defeat, an uncompromising totalitarian. But Olivier also builds a credible, Nietzschean human being, a sarcastic soldier-aristocrat and sour-eyed supersnob of the type well known to the British. Wrote the London Times: "The acting of Sir Laurence Olivier has grown marvelously in power and beauty. He plays it just as well as it can be played...
...eyes, large, firm mouth, and long, slightly turned-up nose. The features are the same as in the next earliest Jefferson portrait known, painted by Mather Brown in 1786. But that picture shows a man marked by struggle, who has come through one of the most momentous decades in human history. Seen through Du Simitière's eyes, the young Jefferson in crisis emerges as a paragon of refined and virile good looks, radiating courage-and hope...
Died. George Grosz, 65, artist who savagely satirized Germany's feverish society between the world wars, with a contorted line drew bloated military and businessmen and their writhing wire-thin victims, relied on his own vivid experience in World War I trenches to depict human beings oozing into animal-like forms under the pressures of war, derided the Nazis so devastatingly from the appearance of the first swastika that Hitler labeled him "Cultural Bolshevist No. 1 and featured him prominently in the 1937 Munich exhibition of degenerate art; of a heart attack; in Berlin. Grosz fled...