Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eagerness to read everything, from the hearts of celery to the mind of God, as well as in the gingerbread elaborations of his style, Author Blackwood is more a Victorian than a modern. Yet, far more than most Victorians, Blackwood has a fervor for the inhuman, subhuman, or superhuman, and a distaste for the world of men. The story in which Black wood expresses his keenest distaste for actual life is perhaps his most carefully composed one, The Lost Valley. Twin brothers, who have lived only for each other for 35 years, find themselves in love with the same woman...
...Word. In Telephone, Texas, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. announced that it would soon get around to installing the town's first telephone serv-ce. In Great Falls, Mont., Mrs. Frank H. Human won a divorce after testifying that her husband treated her in an "inhuman manner...
...most fascinating novels of the year was Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, a chilling account of inhuman Soviet bureaucracy by a man who knew it well. U.S. readers left it virtually unnoticed in their rush to make a bestseller of a fat Finnish historical pudding, The Adventurer, by Mika Waltari, author of last year's bestselling The Egyptian...
Many German doctors, cried Israel's Dr. Emil Adler, who fled Czechoslovakia two weeks ahead of the Nazis, had taken the initiative in suggesting and perpetrating such inhuman experiments as forced sterilization and vivisection of human beings. They were also involved in "the ruthless slaughter of 6,000,000 innocent Jews...
Malik's vituperation could not get a single supporter for his resolutions calling for 1) withdrawal of "foreign troops" from Korea, and 2) a condemnation of the U.S. for "inhuman, barbarous bombing...