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Word: humanity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only experience in the business world for those interested in later exploitation of materialistic tendencies, but an introduction to the people of the metropolitan area where they have been consigned for four years, and--incidentally--to a fuller understanding of the world outside the Ivory Tower and of human nature in general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Future Young Executives Invited to Business Comp | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

...School and M.I.T. have succeeded for the first time in chilling an animal's heart below the freezing point in such a way that it resumed beating when warmed and placed in the body of another animal. The successful project may be the first step leading to "banks" of human organs similar to "blood banks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School-M.I.T. Team Chills, Reactivates Heart of Small Dog | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

...play's end Temple Drake begs Nancy's forgiveness. "Believe," says Nancy. "Only God can forgive sin, only God can make sense out of human suffering, just believe." Humbly, Temple Drake prepares "to save my soul, if I have a soul. If there is a God, and if he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...logic. Temple's behavior is baffling except in terms of innate depravity. Nancy's sinner-into-saint switch is an abuse of poetic license. But to a theater often governed by the spirit of commerce, Faulkner has brought a play whose commerce is solely with the human spirit in its torment, in its aspirations, and in its vagrant moments of nobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Time Listings, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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