Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slides with plans for the ideal city. With 80 million cars expected on the road by 1967, he said, present urban forms were no longer practical. Citing the statistic that one person is killed or injured every six minutes, he urged "a peaceful co-existence between automobiles and the human race...
Critical judgments about Wolfe are perhaps more varied than about any other major figure of American letters. Some will tell you with a note of awe that he is the long-awaited Great American Novelist who has encompassed and canned the whole realm of human experience. The opposing school brands him as ridiculously undisciplined, wordy, extravagant and completely adolescent in tone and approach. His voluminous correspondence, the greater part of which is presented in the present Scribners tome, does little to illuminate this dilemma, if indeed an artist's private life is really relevant in interpreting...
...Wolfe's reach ultimately did exceed his grasp, he had the courage to dare the universe, to seek for the meaning of human life in human terms, and not be misled by the economic explanations or shallow cynicism of so many of his contemporaries. These letters make a fascinating Journey through the byways of a complex and at times over-whelming personality, "all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life...
...Oppenheimer's most important points, made in relation to the paradox of knowledge, was the imbalance between "the intimate, familiar and old form of human knowledge" and that which is new, which is known either well by the few or vaguely by the many. He related this to the imbalance between what is "common knowledge" and "the enormous richness and beauty of information which is hoarded by just a few small groups...
...education, according to Bender, should be "to preserve the human scale, the unique individual against metropolis and mass...