Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere, its temperature and composition. They can judge the danger of meteors, the reefs and shoals of space navigation. They can observe the earth's gravitation, its magnetic field, its electric charge, and the cloud patterns of its weather in ways that are impossible for earth-bound humans. Some of these jobs might be difficult for a light satellite, such as the 21.5-lb. U.S. Vanguard. But a properly equipped satellite could take pictures of the earth or the sun and transmit them to the ground by some sort of TV or telephoto process. Such data, in the hands...
Said Dr. Webb: "When this problem of immunity is overcome, there should be no major obstacle to transplanting human hearts, or even using animal hearts in humans. It will probably take five to ten years, but the surgeons will be ready. In fact, I believe we're ready...
Subject & Self. American painting is primarily a recurring harvest, not of art traditions but of human endeavors."Nothing is so poor and melancholy," Santayana wrote, "as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." American painters in general have turned not to themselves but to the nation, embracing and mirroring its thousand aspects. Charles Willson Peale fought at Princeton and Trenton and wintered at Valley Forge. John James Audubon killed birds in the wilderness not only for models but also to feed his children. Frederic Remington actually rode the Wild West as ranch hand, cook...
...featureless hole. There was no trace of the bronze casket in which tradition said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures about the bones or about additional excavation −the account ends. Archaeologists Toynbee and Perkins conclude only that "at least since...
...great effect on men of the Renaissance: Tasso and Cervantes borrowed from him; many of the Elizabethans−particularly Sir Philip Sidney in The Arcadia−mined his work. The conventions he pioneered of a noble hero and heroine, accompanied by friends who are more comic and far more human, still survive in books, movies and TV serials...