Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inhuman to have to sing about love, always love, with a heart completely empty, and so many memories," crooned France-Soir. But between the white silences, Edith Piaf insists that she intends to live a little longer with those memories. She promises to appear in Marseille next month, in Paris in February...
...even greater disparity between the two halves of the dance section. The final work was an electrifying setting of Virgil Thomson's "Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides" choreographed by Amy Greenfield, who also danced the title role with just the right mixture of passion and inhuman wildness. As Jason, Gus Solomon combined a rigid discipline with a strongly rhythmical movement, producing an effective and intense characterization. The other dancers and the chorus were caught up by the highly charged emotion and supported the principals well. The choreography had about it a sureness and feeling for line that emphaized...
...himself so easily to his own desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that "the recital of his love affairs is monotonous and reveals a mind that was superficial and almost inhuman." Casanova was all too human, and his far-from-superficial mind recorded in the Memoirs an incomparable picture of 18th century life, ranging from jail to royal court, from theater to church...
...Kiss. Within 24 hours more than 1,000 dock workers held a mass protest meeting outside the gates of the Royal Albert Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty...
Finally, Elias Kulukundis publishes The Gold Girl, a story which demonstrates a fine talent for telling neatly and quickly an arresting yarn. The subject of the piece the narrator, becomes involved, over the telephone, with a fantasy girl who sheds her anonymity but cannot pierce his almost inhuman exterior. Initially, the telephonic association of the pair seems implausible because it is such an appalling coincidence. Yet as she herself emerges as the subject of her own fantasy, the elements of the tale fall tidily into place, leaving the cold sensation of hard and real characters existing only as shatterproof shells...