Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...publicly argue about the most attractive design for an underground city, Civil Defense measures come to symbolize the prospects for ultimate security. But to accept such artificial security is to hide from the clearest and most terrifying reality in the world today. To accept emotionally the prospect of the human race huddling underground indefinitely is tacitly to abandon everything man has accomplished on the earth...
...Russians, who for years have been sending a series of movies to New York which amounted to little other than propagandistic harangues (with the Bolshoi thrown in to keep things clean), present us with a warm, deeply moving, and totally human film. This is difficult to reconcile with our concept of a culture that is alien, coldly technological, and unconcerned with problems not directly relating to the Soviet State. So we describe it as a miracle, an artistic exception that proves the rule which we feel comfortable believing in; and, finally we want to conclude that it is above politics...
...contrast of Ike's and Khrushchev's approaches to the U.N., the show last week turned to the Congo, using material that CBS crews had gone to Africa to get. As mpressive as the show itself is its young analyst-narrator, Charles Kuralt, 25, who wrote a human interest column for the Charlotte, N.C. News before CBS hired him. A deep-voiced Carolina Cronkite with more than a little Murrow in his bones, he has one of those low-ratchet, radioactive voices that sound like a roulette wheel stopping...
Stumped by the Stones. Even more interesting anthropologically is a cave found on the nearby island of Tortuga by Clement Manigat, a Haitian working for Dr. Barker. It must have been either a ceremonial burial cave or a place for cannibal feasts, possibly both. In it Dr. Barker found human bones that had been broken so that their marrow could be eaten. Other bones were engraved with the faces of gods. There were earthen pots that had perhaps been used for religious or cannibalistic rituals. Dr. Barker is especially stumped by 64 human gall and kidney stones. What this...
...Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author has chosen a dark theme for his uncommonly well-written first novel-an aging plumber's bout with melancholy after the death of his wife...