Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...define what it has called the "Algerian personality,'' the government has deemed it necessary to undertake, without delay, the application of a program in its loi-cadre. It permits of an evolution, in liberty and respect for human dignity, of institutions which undoubtedly do not embody all virtues, but make possible without further delay the promotion of a new elite in whose hands will be placed the future of the country...
...shows spread over this season and next, sponsored by Monsanto Chemical Co. "to help penetrate the wall that separates the man in the laboratory from the rest of us." The opening show put the viewer's eye to microscopes that revealed viruses and, through time-lapse photography, a human cell mushrooming with cancer. It also presented a primer on oceanography and, in the best segment, an exclusive filmed report of Air Force Major David Simons' 20-mile balloon ascent, capturing some of the suspense and loneliness of his mission. The show made a promising start in a major...
...shock of this book lie in the fact that it describes the irrational motivations of everyday acts--purchasing and consumption. This is not an account of the mentally ill; it applies to everyone reading the book. The shock for Mr. Packard, however, seems to be the discovery that human beings are not always rational, hardly a very amazing discovery...
...newly discovered techniques and in the incomplete explanations of behavior offered by those engaged in "motivational research." In his desire to sermonize, Packard does not really realize the good done by the motivational research expert, both in finding what people really need and also in broadening knowledge about human behavior...
Packard concludes by saying that the manipulative attitude involves an inherent disrespect for human personality. However, this attitude seems unlikely to change in a society with no higher values than those of an expanding economy and increasing consumption...