Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...little too manipulated, and it is intricate and talky in getting under way. But even then it is an action in the service of a theme. Playwright Hellman's old mordant power is in evidence again and again, but Toys combines it with a broadened sense of humanity. Always sharp at characterization, the author of The Little Foxes has become more probing and wide-ranging about character. She has passed from human greed to something at times no prettier but much more universalizing: human need, the ego's fierce need to be needed and be loved, and hence...
With nine pleasant human actors to boot, sympathetic Burgess Meredith staging, and an uncluttered stage, Thurber can shoot straight at the audience. Out of his imagination has come a glorious and instructive world in which everyone is to some extent out of his mind. The demonstration begins at once, with four dancing couples stopping to fling out such remarks as: "She said he proposed something on their wedding night her own brother wouldn't have suggested." The demonstration continues with a round of well-known Thurber fables, and with a dry-mannered Tom Ewell as a TV pet counselor...
...admits, "that we were able to see the theological relevance of the Church only as a negative counterpart to the Kingdom of God which we had then so happily rediscovered. We wanted to interpret the form of the Church's doctrine, its worship, its juridical order as 'human, all too human,' as 'not so important . . .' In all this we at least approached the theory and practice of a spiritual partisanship and an esoteric gnosticism...
...cozy Briticism ("Her mouth tasted like warm tea"). Some of Nunne's other friends are very different cups of tea, notably, a red-mopped painter named Oliver Glasp, who dilly-Dalis between nudes and Crucifixions. Wilson's defense of such characters is clearly Terence's "Nothing human is alien...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Filmed in a Harvard psychology laboratory, the program tries to explain "What Makes Us Human?", shows how science measures learning and conditioning...