Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Arming himself with "almost anything I can get my hands on," Marshall sat in his cheerless Piccadilly Hotel room poring over the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the constitutions of Nigeria, Uganda and Tanganyika. Although he has appeared often and successfully to argue Negro causes before the U.S. Supreme Court, Marshall is faced with one difficulty: he has had no experience of British law. His solution: to draft the constitution in U.S. legal terms and then consult the Colonial Office, which will "translate" it into the proper British terminology...
...After 14 years of negative results, despite the willingness of 6,000 human volunteers to catch cold for science, workers at Britain's famed Common Cold Research Unit (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) reported that they have isolated what appears to be three strains of common cold virus. They will not grow under the conditions favored by most viruses, but need a cooler and more acid medium (like the lining of human nasal passages). The strains are so choosy that some nourish only in cells from embryonic human kidneys-in which others will not grow at all. Upshot: there...
...main hall opposite the broad winding stairway held Rodin's mighty and miserable Adam, an 8-ft.-high study in human splendor and spiritual loss. Opposite him, Maillol's Chained Liberty strainingly strode. Scattered about the palatial apartments were figures by Archipenko, Zadkine, Zorach, José de Creeft, Koren Der Harootian, Nathaniel Kaz, Viani, and Reg Butler. The study contained a miniature judges' bench in rosewood, serving as a pedestal for eleven Judges and Advocates by Daumier. In the garden Antoine Bourdelle's huge, agonized bronze Warrior hacked and thrust...
...every road there were medical teams to inoculate them against cholera (though many needle-shy peasants managed to slip past). The festival area itself was sectioned off like the Chicago stockyards with bamboo fencing to keep crowds from clotting. Posted in special watchtowers, police tirelessly kept track of the human mass with binoculars and blared directions through 300 loudspeakers...
...must have felt bewildered when he was accused of an obsession with sex. He is obsessed all right, but it is with the enormous capacity of men and women for misery and meanness; sex, promising union but bringing solitude, merely offers the most dramatic view of the human condition...