Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happily enough, the co-feature, "Mannequin," is also good. Joan Crawford, cast to type as a hard-working tenement girl, and Spencer Tracy, a human, two-fisted boss of the waterfront, set out to prove the highly dubious proposition that a girl, madly in love with one man, can marry another for money and then proceed to forges the first in favor of the second. One has the impression that the authors changed their minds several times in the course of writing the story; but it does have the great virtue of novelty, and, in addition, provides opportunity...
...Circle wears well because it offers no dated problem in morals, but a permanent reflection on human nature. The Woman with a Past who had darkened the drawing room of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham...
Modern psychology leans to the theory that the human mind is a piece of machinery, which can be measured by the way it acts on raw material. Thus the psychologists feed into the machine a set of questions called an intelligence test, lump the answers together as one product and weigh it, labeling the weight the I. Q. But one school of psychologists, believing the I. Q. is too crude a measure (like lumping apples, oranges and bananas all together and calling them fruit), has been trying to break up the mind into its separate parts. Last week the most...
...exact definition of an adviser is equivocal, some idea of what constitutes one can be gained from the varied qualities demanded in his selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question...
Professor Franz Weidenreich, noted physical anthropologist at Heidelberg and Frankfort Universities, will lecture on "Does Peking Man prove human evolution?," at the Institute of Geographical Exploration today at 5:30 o'clock...