Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted to get out of the shadow of his father and uncle. In graduate school at Columbia he soured on astronomy, took his master's degree in higher mathematics with a thesis on An Introduction to Inversive Geometry. He still regards mathematics as "the most beautiful of all human activities," but dropped it as a career on deciding that his talent for the subject equipped him for nothing more creative than teaching...
...twisting, darkly landscaped road; it is no spiritual Easiest Way. If Greene, in treating the Callifer family, sharply satirizes the bigotry of disbelief, he never -however insistent his personal answer-brings bigotry to faith. The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike...
Just two days before entering the hospital, Chafee, who was Lowell Television Lecturer for the current academic year, finished a television series "The Constitution and Human Rights" on Boston's educational Channel, WGBH. The 16 television lectures, an adaptation of a general education course he developed here in 1950, will be distributed nationally to 22 educational channels...
...reader. On the contrary, it is only at the moment when one disagrees with them that Wilson's views suddenly appear too extreme. He is generally convincing, always interesting, and filled with fascinating bits of information gleaned from a long lifetime of looking into all the various areas of human activity. His explanation of the "mystery" of the Russians, however valid, offers new points of view on a topic that is of deep interest today. The section of the book devoted to the Jews is likewise designed to provoke new insight into a subject deeply complicated and much obscured...
...intense concern with the most accurate possible correlation of the world and the thought which provides an understanding of his intellectual method. In his remarks about religion, Wilson is concerned by the fact that there is no longer any valid correlative for the time-honored distinction between human and animal has led to a degeneration of meaning in the word "soul." These verbal failures lead in turn to the confusion and failure of thought about religious concepts...