Word: human
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...SIGNIFICANCE of last week's Chilean plebiscite will deceive no one. Called by President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a means of discrediting critics in the United Nations and other international organizations that have repeatedly condemned the Pinochet regime for systematically violating human rights, the plebiscite was nothing more than an elaborate charade in which the formal trappings of democracy were used to justify its demise...
...Miller's appointment as "imaginative" and "inspired." Peter Peterson, head of the newly merged investment banking house of Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb Inc. and a longtime friend of both Burns and Miller, said of Miller: "He's a highly sophisticated, aware, dedicated and mature business manager and human being." AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, an archenemy of Burns, praised Carter for dropping the old chairman and "moving away from the discredited policies that created the last recession. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said that he might vote against Miller's confirmation because...
Encyclopedias from Pliny's Historia naturalis of A.D. 77 to the contemporary Britannica have sought to distill the sum of human knowledge. Now British Playwright Ronald Duncan, 63, and Miranda Weston-Smith, 21, have tried a different approach. They have edited and just published The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance (Pergamon Press; $30), a 450-page volume that makes a brave attempt to encompass much of what man does not know. Say the editors: "Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic...
...courage to think and perform the unthinkable is one of the most complicated and powerful of human gifts. It often has the splendor of inspiration and sheer surprise. The development of zero as a tangible number is a breathtaking conception; the idea, like some arithmetical antimatter, was among the forces that eventually propelled man into space. Darwin's thought enforced an intellectual evolution of its own. So did Freud's and Einstein...
Proudhon once wrote of the "fecundity of the unexpected." That is the infinitely various system of alternatives, within which civilization works itself out. The greatest of human gifts may be the talent for improvisation, the ability to evaluate a situation and then to devise some entirely new way of dealing with it. Without that gift, history would be nothing more than a brutal repetition. -Lance Morrow