Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectuals, the movie can mean the transcendence of the human spirit over the tragedies of man's existence, or might be interpreted as a resounding affirmation of salvation from our modern dilemma. Actually, it's about people who get up, fall on their face, and get up again...
Pink & Relaxed. So fruitful was this association that m 1943 Wolf and Wolff published the most momentous study of digestion since Beaumont's: Human Gastric Function (updated in 1947). They had investigated not only the stoma and stomach but, by the psychosomatic approach, the whole man. They showed that Tom's stomach, when he was at ease, was pale pink and relaxed, with many convoluted folds, but bright red, smooth and tense when he became angry. Fright turned both Tom's face and his stomach pale. By shutting off the flow of gastric juices, depression made...
...doubt about my safety in a plane until I walk into an airport terminal and realize that there is a thriving industry in this building selling life insurance policies . . . What they do by this power of suggestion is that they plant the seed of doubts into an already chicken human being...
...Eames argues soberly that "to the designer, the chair provides an area where he can follow through with an architectural concept and test it directly in terms of human scale and function." But the man whose chairs stand in over 1,000,000 homes unabashedly admires the old along with the new, perches himself on a stub-legged Indian chair in the house he designed for himself in Venice, Calif. His dining room (background] is furnished with his prize-winning 1944 chair. And, his black leather chair near by frankly owes a great deal to the Victorian functionalist, William Morris...
...most of the other stories by introducing Author Herlihy's obsessive interest in the "foetal" world of prehistory, when the "gray vapor-covered earth" was ruled by "giant serpents and tiny-headed monsters." Weeping in the Chinese Window describes the cruel seduction by a tiny-headed monster in human form of a spinster who has never suspected the existence of primeval, serpentine masculinity. A Summer for the Dead features a lusty gal who is rejected by a man dead from the waist down and settles for one who is only dead from the neck up-totally blind and nearly...