Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinking of organizing a recall movement* that could renew the ugly dispute. There was also concern that the disappointment would undercut the position of moderate black leaders and that it might even contribute to new disorders in the ghettos. Herbert Carter, executive director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, was among the pessimists: "This plays into the hands of the separatists. They've been saying all along that all you can expect at the hands of the white community is racism. It's likely that the black community will pull into itself, become more alienated than...
...Council of Deans. Since it was started in 1955, the $1600 prize has gone both to scientists and to Faculty members in other fields. Recent winners include Austin W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law, emeritus, for the legal research; Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Human Relations, emeritus, for his historic investigations of human relations in industries; and Carroll M. Williams, Bussey Professor of Biology, for research on the juvenile hormone in insects
...epitaph for the books that she so artfully created before her death. "The fiction writer presents mystery through man ners, grace through nature," she wrote in 1957, 'But when he finishes there always has to be left over that sense of Mystery which cannot be accounted for by any human formula...
...Paik's composition Opera Sextronique. Again last week, Charlotte let her concert gown fall to her waist, but this time her breasts were covered by two 3-in. TV sets. Explained Paik with a broad smile: "By using TV as a bra, the most intimate belonging of a human being, we try to humanize the technology...
Fortunately or unfortunately, human beings, perhaps especially human beings in universities, do not live together in strict accord with general principles. Instead they work out, from case to case, a set of often unspoken agreements and working rules to govern their own behavior and settle conflicts. This process began at Harvard as early as the McNamara episode. Whether it can continue is uncertain because the moral conflict is indeed an intense one. There are, I suggest, two closely related prerequisites for any accommodation that may still make possible serious intellectual work. One would be a shift in emphasis among...