Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weighed nearly three pounds, its 804 pages were a dreary morass of technical jargon and statistical charts, it cost $6.50. But last week the U.S. was taking to Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as "the Kinsey report" (TIME, Jan. 5), the way it had once taken to the Charleston, the yo-yo and the forcing...
...onetime student of insects, Kinsey had set out to apply the "taxonomic approach" to human beings. This involves studying a "series of individuals" large enough to stand as "representatives of the species." By the end of another 20 years, Kinsey and his colleagues hope to have interviewed 100,000 individuals. But data from only 5,300 interviews were used for Sexual Behavior in the Human Male...
...Artists ... do not like to be outcasts, engaged in work which most of their fellow citizens regard as ... outside the range of normal human interests. ... It is not fashionable in our country to be deeply interested in the arts. ... In spite of our high standard of living (which is usually interpreted as meaning a high standard of eating) and our much-vaunted educational system (which teaches our children everything except a love of learning), we are still content to live and think on a very humdrum level. . . . Until Canadians discover that thinking can be fun, the arts in this country...
Stan Kenton considers his "progressive jazz" just what the psychiatrist ordered. Last month, he sat down with a Down Beat reporter (Harvardman Mike Levin), gave him a 62-column interview that sounded sometimes like a seminar in psychology, sometimes like a talk with Father Divine. Said Kenton: ". . . The human race today may be going through . . . nervous frustration and thwarted emotional development which traditional music is entirely incapable of not only satisfying, but representing...
...popular excitement about the "wonder drugs." Even some doctors have become a little overenthusiastic. Dr. John H. Talbott, of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the Buffalo General Hospital, sounded this warning in the current issue of the New York State Journal of Medicine: "It is only human to minimize the untoward reactions of a new therapeutic substance in the enthusiasm of discovering and subjecting it to clinical trial." Dr. Talbott listed, in detail, the wonder drugs' dangers...