Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...oldest justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, warned the guests that most political diaries are scarcely worth the research to blow them to hell. Frankfurter, whose tape-recorded reminiscences were published last year, explained that few diarists deliberately lie, but they are all prey to "the fallibility of the human memory, the infirmities of the human mind, the weakness of human understanding and recollection." And intelligent, articulate diarists are the very worst kind: they couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce "a fusion of fact and fancy." To illustrate his point, Frankfurter drew a bead...
...quite managed to make it the worst. Shot in Todd-AO and exposed on color film that is practically fluorescent, the movie was produced on location in a $1,500,000 replica of the Alamo and the village around it, employs 1,500 horses and seven instantly recognizable human beings (Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Richard Boone, Frankie Avalon, Linda Cristal, Chill Wills). Released as a reserved-seat feature ($1.50-$3.50), it is said to have cost $12 million. Predicts one shrewd old Hollywood range rider, Director John (Stagecoach) Ford: "It will run forever...
...recent years. After writing the picture, Author Duerrenmatt rewrote it as a novel, published in the U.S. as The Pledge (TIME, March 30, 1959). Inevitably, people will say they liked the book better. It was a thoughtful study of the police mind and the one thing that destroys it: human feeling. In the movie, on the other hand, thanks partly to Director Ladislao Vajda, Duerrenmatt's Gothic involutions have been pressed as flat as the celluloid they lie on. Even so, the film has an original (if somewhat perverted) air about it, and works up an uncommon amount...
When the first human rides into space and reaches 80 miles up, he will hear alarming sounds: the sharp pings of cosmic dust particles hitting the skin of his capsule. Harvard Astronomer Professor Fred L. Whipple last week told an Air Force space conference at San Antonio that the earth is surrounded by a shallow but unexpectedly dense cloud of dust that can be detected only by the noise that it makes when it hits space vehicles equipped with listening devices...
...yams and hams and human hands...