Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Panofsky, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, was greeted: "Joyous scholar whose perceptive eye helps us to see the creative human spirit in Western culture...
...empiricism, and were interested in efficient causes. But Stoicism replaced Epicurus; Plato and Aristotle succeeded the atomists. Bacon's empirical inheritance came not so much from the ancients as from the alchemists, who, more than any good Greek, committed the sin of hubris in seeking to impose the human will on the natural order...
There is a second reason for expansion, totally unrelated to any idealistic duty, which Dean Bundy hastens to point out to anyone who may consider expansion a radical or extraordinary proposition. The college, he says, has a natural tendency to grow in harmony with the constant growth in human knowledge. College faculties are continually expanding to incorporate new fields of study, and a rise in student enrollment to meet this expansion is only natural. Such a process of gradual growth has been going on at Harvard for some time and will undoubtedly proceed for many years to come...
...learned to talk about creativity as the dynamic element in the human situation, and to treat all ideas as forms of other ideas, just as he had learned to treat all behavior as a substitute for some other kind of repressed behavior. And when he had related the configuration of events to the total pattern of incidental perceptions he found that a meaningful relationship existed between the transient and the intransient elements of the situation, which was worth an 'A' and therefore equated with intellectual excellence...
Snow-White. Benoit and Leroy named their new ducks "Blanche-neige" (snow-white) and touched off a France-wide sensation by telling about them. The French press has been full of praise, speculation and wonderment, not unmixed with uneasiness. Many were the suggestions for treating infant humans with human DNA. Neither of the partners has any such intention. "It is inadmissible," says Professor Benoit, "to talk about experimenting on men at this time. We are only at the very beginning." Father Leroy sounds somewhat worried, but he finds refuge in the reasoning used by the makers of the first atomic...