Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alien Planet. The probe was already close to Venus when it opened its instrument eyes: an infra-red and a microwave detector. Both of them worked perfectly. Instantly Mariner's radio came alive and began relaying the secrets of Venus to earth, where they were typed in code. In Washington a spokesman for the -Aeronautics and Space Administration announced jubilantly: "We are currently scanning and gathering data from the planet." Then the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, which built Manner II, relayed its actual voice-an eerie, organ-like music. It would take several weeks to turn the signals...
...also rapping the knuckles of Soviet writers. Pravda, in a front-page editorial complained that too many Russian authors had "betrayed" the cause of socialist realism in favor of "all-forgiving liberalism or rotten, sentimental complacency." These "pseudo innovators," argued the editorial, "idly pursue Western fashions, which are profoundly alien to our world outlook, to our esthetic sense, and to our concept of what is wonderful and beautiful...
Life in the Universe. The bold radio astronomers are ready to tackle anything, even the ancient problem of alien life in the universe. Most astronomers agree that the Milky Way galaxy has millions of stars with planets capable of supporting earth-style life. Few if any of them believe that human space voyagers can ever cover the enormous distances that separate the stars. But radio waves cover that range already, and perhaps some not-too-distant stellar system, which includes a planet that has developed a high civilization, is even now sending radio messages in the hope that someone will...
...humanist have different professional vocabularies. Common vocabularies are worked out for convenience in sharing experiences. But the undergraduate scientist and humanist share practically no experience in their respective professional spheres -- their areas of concentration. Thus the vocabulary which the undergraduate scientist uses to talk about his science becomes largely alien to the humanities student. The humanities student might say, "But not vice versa! Scientists can understand us." But in fact, it is not always true that scientists can understand the technical vocabulary of humanists. Aesthetics, certain types of criticism, and philology, for example, have their own jargons. Everybody deplores jargon...
...program for compensating European landowners. Around Setif, the peasants have simply appropriated many deserted farms; in other areas, local committees have taken them over. Rather than carve up big farms, Ben Bella announced that he will turn them into state-owned cooperatives, but rejected Soviet-style collectivization as alien to Algerian "civilization and psychology." Even so, the prospect did not cheer many peasants, whose deepest craving is for some land of their...