Word: subhuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleeping-pill habit is getting more widespread [in Hollywood]. Actors and actresses take them to get a few hours' rest and then swallow benzedrine in the morning to do their work." ¶"The simple truth about the Negro in America . . . is that he is treated as subhuman . . . [Negroes] live worse than the white man's dog." (Explained Iddon later: "I probably meant an Englishman's dog. After all, Britons treat their dogs very well...
...importance of the discovery. "We have proven that men of human type existed contemporaneously with more primitive forms elsewhere . . . Here we are on the main line of evolution." Backed up by further study, his discovery may upset the prevalent notion that modern man is descended from the subhuman Neanderthal. According to Coon, the Hotu man, a true human (Homo sapiens), may actually have preceded Neanderthal...
...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...
...aristocracy-the party leaders with their Buicks in Dedinje; a new middle class of high officials, and a new proletariat which is poorer and bigger than the old. Certainly there has been much construction and some land has been reclaimed. But the price is a subhuman standard of truth living, an and infinite falsehood, a dreariness, social an system inability in to which the distinguish two worst between crimes are to worship God and to say no to the state...
...Thou Shalt Not Kill' is a 'law of God' that convicts Dr. Sander of murder," cried Harvard's Anthropologist Earnest Hooton, "let us have done with such a savage and subhuman deity and substitute a God of mercy and loving-kindness...