Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the races to an extent that will never be undone. Despite Author Williams' naive and sarcastic assertion, I know, and you should know, that this book is readily adaptable to planting in the mind of a child receptiveness to the idea of marriage between white and black human beings. No responsible person will deny that just such use is being made of this type material today...
...must have "those feelings of compassion, consideration and justice that derive from our concepts of moral law. I say moral law rather than statutory law because I happen to be one of those people who has very little faith in the ability of statutory law to change the human heart, or to eliminate prejudice . . . The important thing is that we go ahead, that we make progress. This does not necessarily mean revolution. In my mind, it means evolution...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb in a play, by Loring Mandel, about a scientist's effort to construct an electronic replica of the human brain...
...skinny, 15-year-old girl is well schooled in human relations (she has been a Harlem prostitute for a year) and chemistry (drinking water, she knows, helps the smoker extract that last bit of nourishment from a reefer). But Lu Ann is a little weak in geography. "Now Man," she says, "you aint gassin me you really got an ocean you can get to on the subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island...
...gropingly and don't know in whom to trust. To them I say: believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt everything, but don't doubt of yourself. There is more light in Christ's words than in any other human word. This is not enough, it seems, to be a Christian: in addition, one must believe. Well, I do not believe. Having said this, I am your brother...