Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what its makers and tenders expected. But as it arched into its southeastward course, the tail fire glowed too dark, and the bird faltered. The turbine pumps were failing to feed the right mixture of fuel, and because among those 300,000 delicately tooled parts there could be no human hand to make the needed adjustment, Atlas II was doomed...
...Each show grows first out of hours of talk by Murrow and Friendly. Friendly then briefs the staff, sometimes in a jointly signed memo. After years with See It Now, the staff has soaked up the kind of perceptiveness for human and atmospheric detail that Murrow showed in wartime London when he dramatized the blitz with such tellingly simple touches as the sound of unhurried footsteps, caught by his microphone on the sidewalk as Londoners walked calmly to their air raid shelters...
...preferable that widows do not marry.* Said the Pope (who made no reference to widowers): The church has "a special predilection for the widows who remain faithful to their husbands . . . The dead who see God face to face cannot tolerate in those they have loved . . . inconsistent attachment. What poor human consolation can equal the grandeur of widowhood when it is turned into a means of continuing a union and perpetuating the graces of the sacrament of marriage...
...comedy. Since about 40 million hard-a nd soft-cover copies of his 34 books have been snapped up by U.S. and foreign readers (God's Little Acre tops the list with more than 8,000,000 copies sold), the reader can only conclude that to leer is human...
...other great Reformation leaders-John Knox, the virtuoso of invective, and Calvin, the black icicle of theology for whose doctrine of predestination even-tempered Author Durant reserves one of his rare flashes of indignation ("We shall always find it hard to love the man who darkened the human soul with [an] absurd and blasphemous conception...