Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...procedure as the shape of the conference table and the number of doors leading to the main hall. It was estimated that the number of allied and enemy casualties during the week of Nov. 24 well exceeded the 2,000 mark. I hardly think that this squandering of human life can be condoned by a failure on the part of the negotiators to agree among themselves on such trivia. If they cannot quickly settle these questions, what faith can we place in them to negotiate a lasting settlement...
Against the liberals who assumed the partnership of God and man, Barth proclaimed a radically transcendent Creator whose message had been hurled like a stone at humanity. In contrast to an ethical, teaching Jesus, Barth preached a divine Christ who was, in his person, God's message to man. Rejecting the higher criticism that reduced the Bible to human wish fulfillment, Barth proclaimed the objective authority of Scripture. The Bible, he wrote, was not man's word about God, but God's word about man. Barth's thinking, which came to be known as "crisis theology...
Until now, there has been no way to require credit bureaus and the people who run them to behave like sensitive and sympathetic human beings. But "some regulations are vitally necessary," Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire insisted after last week's hearings. To that end, he has promised to introduce legislation next month that would keep credit data confidential, allow people to correct errors in their own credit records, and eliminate irrelevant or outdated information from credit-bureau files...
...Styron's novel has been given a Pulitzer Prize. Considering the wide critical success the book enjoyed, this result was foreseeable. Most of the novel's acclaim is explained to be due to these virtues: the human validity of its hero, the historical veracity of its factual information, and the merit of its social impact...
First, Styron totally demeans Nat Turner as a human being and individual. The real Nat Turner's wife was taken from him and sold to another plantation by Turner's owner. In a manner chillingly reminiscent of this slaveholder, Styron refuses to admit her existence and proceeds to misrepresent Turner's entire family life...