Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, the Supreme Court, in its recent far-reaching decisions, has opened up the way for human rights and freedom, and thus a stronger democracy...
...bubbling lava of this decade's news be captured by human understanding and shaped into summary that makes plain sense? Can all the vast perplexities, defeats and triumphs of this time-cold war, Korea, emergent nationalism, threat of mutual nuclear destruction, democracy, prosperity, Hungary, Suez-be reduced to some essential theme? It was done last week in the span of 90 minutes in a space 290 ft. long, 68 ft. wide and 90 ft. high, on precisely the right occasion and in the right place for this achievement...
Quoting Lord Bryce. he said: "The law of nature represented to the Romans that which is conformable to reason, to the best side of human nature, to an elevated morality, to practical good sense, to general convenience. It is simple and rational, as opposed to that which is artificial or arbitrary. It is universal, as opposed to that which is local or national. It is superior to all other law because it belongs to mankind as mankind, and is the expression of the purpose of the Deity or of the highest reason...
...classical and rational with the whimsical, imaginative and romantic--distilling a sparkling essence of originality and spontaneity. He analyses the psychology of love with occasionally brilliant and penetrating flashes of Oscar Wildean wit, epigrams and repartees, and unmasks man's soul with inquisitive glee, showing sympathy and understanding of human character. His rainbow play sheds a radient vision and has an unmistakably French idiom of graciousness and lightness...
...onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different." i.e., to be what U.S. tradition calls "individualistic" or nonconformist, what orthodoxy dubs heretical, what psychiatry calls neurotic, what some men in the street call plain cracked. Author Wallace agrees with Mill that "eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded...