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...astringent British Author Aldous Huxley, 67, concluded that, "luckily for humanity," not one of them "could ever be fully actualized." Even the best-intentioned of the lot, said Huxley to the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, would have created societies "as horribly inhuman as Orwell's 1984" or his own Brave New World. More's Utopia, said he, is "paternalistic state socialism administered like an old-fashioned boarding school"; Plato advocated childhood conditioning, censorship and "compulsory virtue"; Fourier had "a pathological lust for social tidiness." Said Huxley: "Most utopists have...
Introducing insanity into the performing arts is terribly hazardous, for derangement can be a deus exmachine that patches over every discontinuity and weakness in the plot. Bergman has compounded the risks by driving the subject from relative sanity to madness in less than a day, by using a peculiarly inhuman sort of disorder (the girl expects God to come through a wall), and by eschewing both the flashbacks and the reminiscences that might give perspective upon the way those around her react to her disintegration...
...Manhattan, fans, friends and relatives of ex-Champion Paret fanned the controversy with excited comment. Paret's hysterial wife, three months pregnant, called Griffith an "inhuman monster...
Divorced. By Cornelia ("Coya") Knutson, 49, sometime Democratic Congresswoman from Minnesota: Innkeeper Andrew Knutson, 54, whose celebrated "Coya Come Home" letter probably cost her re-election in 1958; after 22 years of marriage, one adopted son; on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment; in Red Lake Falls, Minn...
These fine electronic brains have an inhuman weakness: they respond only when addressed properly. As Colonel Glenn was saying, there is still room for man in this machine age. You will find a notice in this week's letter column, in which we ask that you include your mailing label (that's the kind of impulse the machine is taught to understand) in any correspondence you may have concerning your subscription, and that you use the form provided to let us know of any change of address. This will help us carry out your instructions accurately and faster...