Word: subhuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the Golden Arm is a grim indictment: of narcotics, of the subhuman "men" who sell it, and of the slums and poverty which breed the addicts. It is not a pleasant film, for director Otto Preminger has ground the lens of his camera in the dirt of human degradation, and the audience who follows the descent is left raw and hurt. But there is also a measure of triumph in the picture, since it shows how one addict throws off "the monkey on his back...
...self-contained and with vision that goes out over larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that is not mere passive resignation. Moore's rhythms are those of earth itself." Noninitiates might retort that Moore's sculptures look more subhuman than superhuman. Granting its plastic power-its dramatic impact as a shape-his Draped Reclining Figure sadly lacks the sympathy with which Blake portrayed all human beings. It is like a lump trying to shake off a nightmare, and perhaps rise to human nature...
delirious subhuman being...
...that nobody in his laboratory will be endangered. If the applicant wants to work on humans, he cannot get his radiant atoms until his answers to these questions have been considered by the AEC's Subcommittee on Human Applications of Isotopes (known affectionately in the trade as the "Subhuman Committee...
Fansler acquits the housewife of the charge of carelessness because "the word does not explain anything, and it stigmatizes the person concerned as somehow a little subhuman...