Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fellow workers, you must rise and fight the bosses. You are like the Communist dragon-seduced by the comfort that Capitalism offers you as a bribe to keep quiet. But refrigerators and TV sets won't solve your problems-only the revolution can give you the strength and human dignity denied the working class so long." In the village of Vignola, the audience was so aroused by this argument that a group called for flags and guns to march on the nearby factory and take it over. The march did not take place. As one worker says to another...
...abandoned their parents' ways and modeled their behavior on teachers or heroes. Now, however, the kind of change fostered by technology has removed even those models. Youths today, she argued, are like children of wilderness pioneers-the first natives in a new world. "For the first time in human history," she said, "there are no elders anywhere who know what the young people know." Parents who would understand what their own generation has wrought, she implied, will have to reverse the traditional pattern and let their children teach them what the real issues and questions...
...career as a disciplined observer of human behavior began when she was nine: her economist father and sociologist mother encouraged her to record the speech patterns of her younger sisters in a notebook. As a child, Dr. Mead once recalled, she precociously read "hundreds of books a year and every magazine, allowed or forbidden, that came into the house." By the age of 13 she was ghostwriting papers for members of a women's self-improvement society near her home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She arrived at Manhattan's Barnard College the very model of a liberated young...
...print. Though the work broke no theoretical ground, Margaret Mead's conclusion that the Samoan teen-ager was calm and free from trauma provided solid proof that "adolescence is not necessarily a specially difficult period in a girl's life" and, by extension, that so-called "human nature" is almost infinitely plastic...
...comforting knowledge that everything I reported was unique, vanishing, and would be useful for anthropology. Today those people and I live in the same world, and my knowledge of their past has changed the world climate so that it is ready for them to assert their rights as human beings. It's sentimental to object to the fact that people are coming into a world community. We're not going to go back...