Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adds a Brooklyn junior high school assistant principal: "The kids reflect the adults and the world they live in." Says another school official: "We try to make them act the way we don't. We try to teach them to be generous, to believe in the sacredness of human life, to respect the rights of others. But the kids have eyes...
...ways that do not lead to such dead ends for the scientist, but they are difficult ways. One is the way of a Conant or a Killian: deliberately to enter into the experiences and to assume the responsibilities and the disciplines that have to do with the art of human relations. The product of this dual discipline, in the scientist-statesman, can be one of our most valuable public servants in times like this. "For those who do not have a genius for the double task, there is another choice. This is simply to put their truth and their power...
...arts and sciences at Harvard, reassured alumni-H and non-H- who must pay for U.S. higher education: "Harvard today-with all American colleges-is committed more to the uneasy future than to the memorable past. And there is confidence here, a faith in the future of the human heart and mind...
...about the end of the story on the military value of earth satellites. You can't drop a bomb from a satellite; it just won't drop, and to project a bomb to earth is about as difficult as getting our human being back to earth . . . It's no good getting it on the wrong side of the earth...
...Underneath all such efforts," said Clayton, "is an understandable human impulse to choke off competition, and protect prices and profits. Nevertheless, such attempts should be understood for what they are, and defeated. The U.S. has always prospered by using the cheapest available fuels." In the future, such fuel will be at a premium, as consumption keeps rising. "We should never forget that the U.S. has only about 20% of the proven oil reserves of the world, whereas we are consuming over half of the present production of oil in the world...