Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been seized upon in the '50s. The Eisenhower Administration's record on civil rights was, to say the least, undistinguished. "I have very little faith," he would say in the tones of Ecclesiastes that the next decade would find unacceptable, "in the ability of law to change the human heart or eliminate prejudice." Much as Eisenhower's Abilene background strengthened him for the great tests of war, it did little to help him understand the urban society he governed. In the era of Keynesian economics, his obsession with a balanced budget seemed archaic. In those days there were...
White America is only now beginning to understand the diversity of Negro society. That dawning recognition may be a hopeful sign. Instead of racial discrimination, it might mean human discrimination, a capacity to distinguish among the enormously varied aspects of black America. Says the National Urban League's Whitney Young: "Somehow the white community has got to get over the idea that we should provide them with a black messiah who will be all things to all men. Whites seem to be able to distinguish their own crackpots from the rest, but when there's a riot...
When surgeons began boldly transplanting human hearts, they appeared to come into direct competition with researchers who had spent years trying to devise an artificial heart. But last week Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who has transplanted more hearts than any other surgeon, brought the two lines of investigation into a neat, complementary...
Transplants, Cooley told an American College of Cardiology meeting in Los Angeles, have produced evidence that the development of a successful artificial heart "may actually be easier than we had previously believed." The explanation: nature has provided the mammalian (including the human) heart with an elaborate fail-safe system of dual controls, one through the nervous system and another through hormonal channels. Early researchers on artificial hearts were overwhelmed by the difficulties of trying to duplicate these enormously complex natural systems. This, said Cooley, is not necessary...
Like many another metal, lead is a cumulative poison. The human body can dispose of the minute quantities that it ingests in food and water. But any unnatural overload piles up, causing abdominal cramps ("painter's colic"), lassitude, irritability, vomiting and twitching. In severe cases, the victim may lapse into a coma. Prolonged lead poisoning damages the brain so insidiously that its effects may not be evident for years...