Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists who are studying human heredity dissecting nine-banded armadillos? See SCIENCE, Multiplying by Four...
...Life for everyone is enough of a struggle. Human beings need a religion based on compassion and understanding, as opposed to one that emphasizes the threat of hell. Catholicism will truly be tried when it unshackles the compact majority and forces it to make its own decisions on matters of faith and morals. The hierarchy may discover that this majority would indeed be harder on itself than the institution would ever dare...
...liberal President before him could not appease a raucous Negro population with heavy legislation for human rights, how is the comparatively conservative Nixon expected to do so? If a liberal Democratic President could not manage a liberal Democratic Congress, how is the conservative Republican expected to maneuver the same Congress? If the leader of a labor-oriented political party could not pacify the rebellious labor unions, how is the leader of a big-business-oriented party expected to reason with labor? If the President who was swept into office in 1964 on the largest majority vote ever could not unite...
This nation was born as the result of heated contention between loyalists and revolutionaries. The rise of the common people took place during the controversial presidency of Andrew Jackson. The end of slavery was brought about during the war between the states. The great Depression produced human progress unequaled until the divisive Johnson Administration...
...test human tolerance to supersonic airliners, which may disturb as many as 130 million Americans every day by 1975 with sonic booms, a panel of scientists last week recommended an immediate program of experimental flights over populated areas. "It's not clear," said Harvard Scientist Roger Revelle, "just how intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset...