Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Marines," commented French Director Roger Vadim (who gave the world Brigitte Bardot), "plants a sword in the human consciousness, for it tells of young volunteers who, in order to prove their human identity, accept precisely the contrary: loss of their individuality . . . Still, I know well while writing these words freely that I owe my freedom in part to other shaved-headed young men who 16 years ago brandished these bayonets on beaches now boasting bloody names...
...satellite's second purpose was to help determine the effects of outer-space radiation on future astronauts. Inside the recovered capsule were human bone marrow, blood cells and tissue from the underside of a human eyelid, as well as fungus spores and algae. After analysis, the results will be compared with similar materials which were recovered from Discoverer XVII, when it was snatched in mid-air last month...
Tree into Body. The earliest tablets showed only symbols of the sage: his footprint on a mountainside, the great Bo tree, or the wheel. Gradually, the footprints grew into feet, the tree into a body. The artists never used a human model. Instead, each artist studied existing statues or paintings, and when he had the image firmly in mind, he would produce a work of his own. Though the art of Thailand has in a sense been a perpetual act of copying, the finest artists could not help leaving their personal stamp...
Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark...
...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. In one of the fall's best shows, Mike and Elaine in various skits leave tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human...