Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is they are constantly influenced by parents, teachers, etc. . . . Creative discontent is wholesome; only when the goal of persuasion is to instill stale contentment is it immoral . . ." But a Honolulu public-relations man has misgivings: "One of the fundamental considerations involved here is the right to manipulate human personality . . . What degree of intensity is proper in seeking to arouse desire, hatred, envy, cupidity, hope, or any of the great gamut of human "emotions...
...turns against God as the guilty one, and sentences him to experience for himself the agony of a D.P., "homeless, hungry, thirsty, terrified of death," surrounded by misery and sickness, suffering even the death of his own child, and dying at last himself in pain and dishonor. The human judge duly condemns God "to the hellish journey of being a man," and the three Archangels leave to carry out the sentence...
...humble project to improve carbon copying has spawned a whole family of technical advances and is still reproducing wildly. It may even end by simulating the structure of the human brain...
...cells (which are about the same size) should not be trained to behave in this way too. They are not trying to synthesize bacteria or protozoa, but there is at least a possibility that Cash's capsules can be made to resemble the neurons (nerve cells) of the human brain and to take over some of their functions...
...imposing. The surface treatment is unusual and very expressive. Childbirth of a Country Woman, also in plaster, is as much a technical achievement but far less successful. The moods of the two figures, the man and woman are so opposed that it is impossible to believe that that two human beings could be in proximity. The kneeling man's expression of contemplation is quite out of keeping with the shriek of pain that writhes from the peasant woman's body as she brings forth life...