Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since cooking was the theme of your cover, may I quote Brillat-Savarin: "The discovery of a new dish does more for the human race than the discovery of a new star...
...school's out" exuberance generated by the photographs and text in regard to the release/exchange of the Americans from Mexican prisons [Dec. 19] hides the fact that many of these individuals were trafficking drugs. Their activities could thus result in degradation of human life far beyond anything they experienced...
While abroad, Carter talked about human rights, oil prices, Middle East peace and other matters of substance. But he put major emphasis on a series of symbolic acts that were intended to have broad significance. These acts, said National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, would demonstrate to the world that the Carter Administration, more than any of its predecessors, is trying to break out of old foreign policy molds, willing to deal equably with diversity abroad and genuinely committed to the cause of human rights. Having frequently demonstrated his skill with political symbolism at home, the President seemed to be trying...
...message--that amity and understanding will reign between us and our interstellar neighbors if we just extend a welcoming hand--conveys, in fact, unwarranted hopefulness. It is ridiculous to assume that folks from the other side of the universe will have such a touching respect for the sacredness of human life when earthlings themselves do not seem all that concerned. The notion becomes even more unbelievable when you consider that, from the aliens' point of view, we are inferior creatures. Just think what we do to our guinea pigs and chimpanzees. When the aliens courteously return--without a scratch...
...couches, not food, and the fact that T.V. news cameras clearly showed not rage but actual gaiety on the faces of the looters, this theory holds up. Of course, right knees jerked as rapidly as the left ones, as some observers claimed that the looters stole because they were human jackals, amoral animals, the scum of the earth. Newsweek quoted one woman as saying the looters were "coming across Bushwick Avenue like buffalos...