Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific fraternity, I should say that although we have done little to dispel the idea that researchers can invariably come up with the right thing at the right time, this is far from true; scientific methods are reasonably above reproach, but those who use them are subject to human shortcomings. The simple principles by which we have so far lived are now inadequate. The difficulties of formulating new principles might be neatly resolved by a Second Coming, but rather than wait for that, we had all better try to think the matter through at once...
...Human nature being what it is and sex desire so imperious, it may be far safer for men and women to have sexual intercourse frequently enough so that they do not build up undue tensions regarding...
...hungry wildcat. Above all, West was not parochial, did not advocate political or social systems. He was one of those men in whom pity must take the form of anger, but his anger was not anything as simple as anti-American or anti-Babbitt; it was anti-human nature...
...motorcade that resembled a Roman triumph crossed with a Mack Sennett chase, the sultan followed his soldiers. Reporter James Morris, then with the London Times, was at his side. Morris camps his story at the oases of human interest, from Mohammed's legendary prayer ("Honor your aunt, the palm, which was made of the same clay as Adam") to vignettes of Arabs setting their watches by the sun and "sweetening" their beards with incense. There is still only one God and that is Allah, but oil is profit, and Author Morris is happy that he saw Muscat and Oman...
Author Templeton's wit is a subdued delight, and her mental antennae vibrate not only with a sense of the past but with an understanding of the present as well: "[Renaissance men] protested against the shortness of human life and against the instability of all things by being as alive as they possibly could be. They ate sensations by the spoonful and turned themselves into a salad of all sorts of contradictory human qualities. We today behave in the opposite manner. We imagine that the less different and the less conspicuous we are, the less we shall be noticed...