Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision to create this section is consistent with the vitality of the underlying art and science. Beyond achieving the objectives you mentioned, it will serve to highlight for your readers the excitement and the great significance that the study of behavior qua behavior has for almost every aspect of human affairs...
Later that night, a Nixon staff member came up to me and asked how my talk with "the Chief" had gone. I said it had been all right and he paused, gazing vacantly toward a tangle of unloaded television equipment, and said, "He's really a rather human person, once you get to know...
...supposed to. I imagined for a moment that his face had been remodelled by representatives of the mass media to match the image which they have popularized--even more, he looked like a Nixon cartoon given life. I had expected that meeting Nixon would tend to humanize the plastic, electronic Nixon-image that I had always known, but I found the real Nixon overpowered in my mind by the plastic. As we talked, I thought with astonishment of the millions of synthetic Nixon-images which this one Nixon-mold had spawned. At one point the thought lept into my head...
...child of his times who believed in a divine order, which he frequently described as nature. In An Essay On Man he wrote: "All nature is but art, unknown to thee;/ All chance, direction, which thou canst not see." It was upon a generally held conception of divine and human order that Pope built his strict prosody...
...innocent of depth psychology as a post-Freudian age might complacently assume. Pope's sin (in modern usage, his neurosis or maladjustment) is explored with devoted detachment by Peter Quennell in the first of a promised two-volume work on the little cripple whose verses fixed a thousand human insects in Formalin...