Word: subhuman
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Vercors' writing since the war has probed and worried that question-most notably in the bestselling You Shall Know Them (1953), which, like Sylva, examines man in terms of his relation to animals. The animals in the earlier novel were a species of hominid, subhuman, but capable of breeding with men-which Vercors used, as he uses his fox-lady, to exemplify his belief in the power of the aspiring will to change and transcend the natural, i.e., animal, condition...
...Columbia with his own student combo, changed his mind. After touring the U.S. with Flutist Herbie Mann and a jazz combo, he settled down to serious composition. His most ambitious work to date: an opera about the Ma Barker mob, which appeals to him because "you need subhuman or superhuman characters in opera" and because he hopes that the role of 220-lb. Ma will "resuscitate the race of Wagnerian sopranos...
...Subhuman Individuals." Arms folded and feet on table, Lennox-Boyd stared stonily ahead in the House of Commons, as the Opposition charged the government with condoning lynch law in Africa by refusing to accept responsibility for the Hola murders. He was not helped much by a volunteered defense from a Tory backbencher that the African victims were "desperate and subhuman individuals." Next day came the Devlin debate...
...years ultrasonics meant something only to dogs and other subhuman creatures. One of the few uses of ultra-high sound waves was in whistles, too high-pitched for human ears, to call pets. Today ultrasonics is an exciting new technological frontier. Last year the ultrasonics industry's commercial and military sales reached $25 million, and in 1959 they are expected to double. Last week industry experts estimated that within five years there will be a $150 million annual market for ultrasonic* equipment...
...brute and his half-wit mistress are subhuman, because inarticulate. This it is almost to be expected that a movie which details their adventures truthfully and without claptrap should quickly become wearisome. This is pointed up by the brief appearance of the tightrope walker, who is gloriously articulate. La Strada takes on its fullest life when he is onscreen. He is like a nimble, lively Orpheus in a hell of groping and grunting, and Richard Basehart plays him brilliantly. Signor Fellini has created one character of un-crippled humanity, and for a few scenes has matter worthy of the scrupulous...