Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great and too restricted for its literary form. It is apolitical, and, ironically, a political shillelagh inveighed by both sides in the Cold War. It alternates between axes of profound beauty and profound confusion. It is not quite Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, but its intellectual vitality and respect for human dignity make it tower above anything else around these days...
...blond good looks and his unpredictable James Dean moods made girls eager to comfort him. In a surge of euphoria, Hlasko would cry: "Writing is a wonderful occupation, almost as good as drinking!" Or, cryptically: "I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom." Then depression would set in, and he would groan: "The devil -! I've lost Poland. Without Poland I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country...
...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Genu, Cyclopes and a floppy dragon conspiring against a few human types (Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kerwin Mathews), in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...
Tunnels & Tools. Now McDonnell is training its sights on space. "Mr. Mac," as President McDonnell likes to be called, is certain that space flight is ''one of the most rapidly evolving fields of human creativity in the history of the world," and he is determined to win a place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint...
With science pretty much out of this world, and politics "in the realm of surrealism and fantasy, doesn't modern art loom large as a most real and reasonable, concrete and most reputable human activity?" demanded U.S. Abstractionist Ad Reinhardt. No. 15 (opposite) is one of Reinhardt's more seeable creations: usually his colors merge and vibrate so elusively as to cause eyestrain. The 9-ft.-high canvas is also a standout exhibit at what may be the most provocative art show now hanging: "Acquisitions 1957-58" at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo...