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Word: humanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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Along with chimpanzees and orangutans, gorillas are man's closest kin. They are also remarkably susceptible to human ailments, including mumps, measles, even ordinary colds; and although Omega has never seemed seriously ill, his sperm count is now nil. No one is sure why. It could be his weight (obesity can interfere with gorilla lovemaking); it could also be years of sexual inactivity. Whatever the reason, says Primate Curator Benjamin Beck, Omega's condition is all too common among gorillas in captivity, and that has scientists worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dwindling Breed | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...effort seems to slow her speech. Or maybe she was directed to carry on portentously. Even her love scenes are handled with ludicrous discretion. One comes to imagine that she has been impregnated with her illegitimate child by Fate itself, since it is impossible to think that any human could get through the 40 yds. or so of stout English cloth that Polanski insists on wrapping around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Atonement | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...Kennedy, general manager of the Chicago Cubs, sat down at a table in the lobby of a Dallas hotel and, while hundreds looked on, made their deal. Baseball's 79th winter meeting-an annual extravaganza that is part Oldtimers' Day, part industry trade fair and part human flesh market-was under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Splendor Among the Potted Palms | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...should be noted that before her death in 1979, Bishop declined to be included in this anthology. Her reason: it is confined to women. Certainly, as Bishop's demurral suggests, it is no easy matter to designate a writer, a woman and a member of the human race as a single species. Seeking an identity, the Puerto Rican Julia de Burgos (1914-1953) provided these haunting lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Room of Their Own | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

Says Linguistics Scholar Peter Farb in Word Play: "Something happened in evolution to create Man the Talker." And a talker man remains, with speech his most exalting faculty. Talk is the tool, the toy, the comfort and joy of the human species. The pity is that talkers so often blurt so far beyond the line of what is needed and desired that they have to be listened to with a stiff upper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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