Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provided to bring her back to earth for a second appearance on the Moscow radio. Although not impossible, this would be exceedingly difficult, and official Russian sources have made no such promise. But even if she lives for only a short time, her experiences may help keep the first human space voyagers alive...
Hopes that medical progress may prolong human life far beyond the 100-year mark are unrealistic. So said New York University's Dr. Morris Rockstein before the Gerontological Society in Cleveland last week. Despite advances already made, a person of 65 now has only a slightly greater life expectancy than one of the same age had in the past. Also, the fact that few people live much beyond the 100 mark indicates that this is "close to the potential maximum for the majority of human beings...
...ripeness of years," says Hocking at the beginning of the book, "I am inclined to a moment of prophecy." What, he wants to know, will be the future roles of church and state, "our two institutional interpreters of total human nature''? In exploring that question, he not only pins down the basic-malady of what he calls modernity; he also suggests a cure in the form of a more positive search for a universal religion...
...rapport with man. "With this abandonment of man's native rapport with the whole, the nerve of worth in his own living and acting silently ceases to function. Here, I venture to think, is the root of our malady. For this is the first principle of human motivation: that the meaning descends from the whole to the parts...
...Thou-art. Science itself reveals this sense of ''inter-subjective reality" every time "the lonely experimenter, wherever he is, knows he has discovered truth as unquestionably a truth for everyman . . . Modernity has thus held to its own type of certitude, its science, its humanistic confidence in human thinking-in brief to its 'I-think'-until on its own empirical ground it sees its incomplete truth. What religion may say, and truly say, is that this inter-subjective reality is nothing other than its own eternal and unswerving doctrine...