Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLECTED ESSAYS, by Graham Greene. The novelist repeatedly drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey...
...Heartmakers" explains the world's only artificial-heart implantation in a human being through separate interviews with Dr. Denton Cooley, who performed the operation, and Dr. Michael DeBakey, who headed the research team...
...Glory! Hallelujah!", described by its author, A. M. Barlow, as a Civil War "parable play," explores the nature of war and its effects on the human spirit...
...more, the rumor is not likely to die before he does; after the event, which could occur 50 or so years from now, the last surviving mongers of this particular rumor will triumphantly crow: "I told you so." For reasons that go back to the origins of man, the human intellect craves to discover more meaning than facts can supply. What it does not know it will guess at. Airborne by ignorance and insecurity, that supposition will almost always defy the attempts of reason to shoot it down...
...ATMOSPHERE which Clouzot creates unifies, envelops, and relentlessly corrodes every human being that fate has placed there. Any human pretensions or illusions they may have borne are gnawed at and peeled away until they are reduced to the level of pure animalism which is their reality. Clouzot had explored this Bunclesque notion of human degradation in Le Corbeau, a film be made during the war, in which a series of anonymous letters written to the residents of a small provincial town lead them to suspect and maliciously attack one another. The Nazis used the film to demoralize the French...