Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin T. Orne '48, now professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, said the members of his Studies in Hypnosis Project unwittingly received approximately $30,000 from the CIA, through the Human Ecology Fund, a foundation established...
...that, Great Britain last week found itself haled before the European Court of Human Rights, voluntarily joined by Britain in 1950. Her Majesty's government was accused of tolerating "degrading punishment." Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws. But after he was birched three strokes in 1972 for beating up a school prefect who had snitched on him, a 15-year-old Manx boy named Anthony Tyrer made an international case...
...20th century mathematics and philosophy. By demonstrating that there is no way to set up a mathematical system that will prove all statements within that system, the theory reaffirmed the creative aspect of mathematics: it implied that a computer could never be programmed to answer all mathematical questions, that human ingenuity rather than mechanical programming would always be needed to generate new mathematical axioms...
...strong dissent, the minority report rejects the idea that "the Holy Spirit contradicts in our experience what He has clearly said in the whole fabric of Scripture." It considers the male-female distinction part of God's design to make human life coherent, concluding that homosexuals have a "distorted or insufficient belief in who they are." Even though all Christians sin in various ways, the minority felt that the church cannot afford to condone a practice that the Bible so clearly rejects: "Neither laypersons nor ministers are free to adopt a life-style of continuing, conscious, habitual and unrestricted...
...waning neo-orthodox theology, the policy on homosexuality is crucial in ways that go far beyond the question of whether homosexuals are permitted to join the clergy. Since the Bible is so explicit, they wonder if the church will have any biblical basis for imposing any restrictions on human behavior if it votes moral acceptance of active homosexuality...