Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense of an already established social position. Indeed, he does not even consider the fact that all intellectual activity is a reaction to some stimulus, usually some sort of infantile frustration or deprivation. Nor does he consider the possibility that mental health may exist only in a human being who resembles a vegetable...
...perhaps unfair to single out Dr. Farnsworth from the countless well-intentioned life-adjustors who daily offer the public new verbal panaceas and programs with no possible reference to human activity. Yet the failure of these men to realize the importance of language and form in the presentation of their work is perhaps the most important single blindness now retarding our effort to develop a new vision of human nature which will conform to our scientific predelictions and replace the mystical resignation of medieval religion...
...scientists seem to believe that "truth" exists independently of their efforts to embody this truth in verbal or symbolic formulations. They further believe that they have direct access to this truth, and they therefore assume that if they make a statement which is not false, they are necessarily increasing human knowledge, no matter how inane, inarticulate, or inept their formulation...
...many legends have grown up around Theodore Roosevelt that it is hard to sift fact from fiction. A host of friends, classmates, and distant admirers have felt obliged to produce anecdotes about this "locomotive in human pants," thus swelling the collection of stories over the years...
...major item on the program, Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, is a highly complex and intellectual vision purveying a vision of hell as "other people" in perhaps unnecessarily melodramatic terms. The central characters are so exaggerated as human types that only a considerable dramatic achievement renders the characters and situation believable even as fantasy, while at the same time serving the author's somewhat muddy propagandistic purpose...