Word: humankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fire has such power of pixilation been granted as this son of North Chicago carries in his thumb. From the magic hand of Disney has come hippety-hoppeting, tippety-squeaketing, quackety-racketing the most cheerful plague of little animals that has ever been visited on humankind...
...doing as he plays it straight from Little Italy. And Ernest Borgnine is a Fatso hard to forget. He can smile and smile and be a villain, in a way to make the audience realize that it is in the presence of that perhaps not rarest of humankind, the perfectly normal monster...
...Sound of Cicadas. In one of the most moral gestures in the annals of humankind, the U.S. had sent its sons to die in Korea without hope of conquest or dream of reward. But the war hung fire, neither won nor lost, and the aggressor remained unrepentant, ready to strike again. For the U.S., public morality abroad seemed to be easier than at home. It had been a summer of suspicion and scandal. The charges of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy shrilled as insistently as the cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national...
...things-the frustration and humiliation of oldish, plainish women, or the twisted compulsions of sexual perversion. With these dark themes, he sets out to expose a whole gallery of frauds, hypocrites, opportunists and pretentious bores. The result is a fearsome commentary on the viciousness and depravity of humankind...