Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hunting one in a significant particular. In contrast to the cultivator of the soil, the aboriginal Australian food gatherer and the ultramodern immigrant Australian or American industrial worker are like each other in both being rootless ... If we want a label for the now dawning third age of human history, we can call it equally well either 'the age of Diasporas' or 'the age of civilization...
...call-but are both baffled and fascinated by its heatless, chemically generated properties. As of last week a chemical company, Schwartz Bio-Research Inc. of Mount Vernon,N.Y.,had found a happy way of 1) letting children turn their firefly chasing to profit, 2) putting firefly tails to practical human use, and 3) offering hope that science may soon solve the longstanding puzzle of the little white-fire insect...
...overcoat only, after an intoxicated moment of triumph, to be robbed of it, is one of literature's most surcharged parables, often with meanings beyond words. And without words Marceau at times approached those meanings as-against, the stylized puppetry of the other characters-he made something hauntingly human and personal of the clerk. If not everywhere equal, The Overcoat scores as both stage piece and production...
...mime. Marceau is almost as remark able for range as for dexterity; even in a slightly too long evening, there is little sense of repetition. There is great range of emotional and comic effects; of human activity, as with a man engaging in all the attractions of a fair; and of human types, as in catching the whole varied life of a public garden. As a park-bench gossip or seasick voyager, Marceau is hilarious; as high-wire performer, he can be both hilarious and terrifying; as a mask maker pulling masks on and off with lightning speed and ending...
...next step is machines that can do more than answer just yes or no; they would, in effect, reason by considering alternatives, reach "under the circumstances" conclusions. Bell has already reconstructed a neuron, the basic element of the human brain, electronically, will ..try linking several together in a "neural net" duplicating nerve tissue. Eventually they hope to devise a computer able to freely associate ideas. IBM and others are trying to control molecules to work as a new kind of transistor, make a computer whose components will "feel" each other's information, come to qualitative decisions...