Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live-virus polio vaccine is taken by mouth.) Plotkin also noted that some lines of HPV-77 are grown in cultures of monkey-kidney cells, which may be contaminated by other, and dangerous, viruses. Not surprisingly, Wistar has its own vaccine, also live-virus but grown in cultures of human cells and therefore free of animal viruses. This, said Plotkin, has the further advantage that it can be given in the form of nose drops, whereas other vaccines must be injected under the skin...
...third time that Cushing had publicly announced his intention to resign. A product of Boston's once-Irish urban ghetto, he was named Archbishop of the city in 1944, and subsequently proved to be one of the great school and church builders of American Catholicism. Affectionately human and totally unpredictable, Cushing was, more importantly, a pioneer ecumenicist in the open style of Pope John, a maverick prelate who found it possible, at various times, to endorse both the John Birch Society and the N.A.A.C.P. In poor health for many years-and, at 73, only two years away from...
While Annabel decides how to deal with her career and with Billy, the author toys with her conscience like a sadistic cat. Spark's portrayal of human venality is ruthless. First, Annabel calls a press conference-where she is surrounded by weeping neighbors-to deny that her husband intended suicide in the first place. Like a small child, she tries out little lies and daydreams, but she reassures no one but herself that the truth can be contained. The author observes it all, and from the crudest angle...
What saves the book from being mere female savagery is Spark's balancing sensitivity to naked human need. Annabel debases herself in a desperate attempt to protect her blameless, hardworking existence. Without sentimentality, the author pities Annabel; the reader can laugh at her but cannot side against...
Under Miller's tutelage this idealism grew naturally into the view that the most worthy object of historical study is human consciousness. His concern is not for the great system-builders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the libraries of second-rate thinkers. For example, he ransacked the effects of the Puritan ministers and aldermen for evidence for his major work, Religion and the American Mind. The Idea has for Heimert a life of its own, conditioned by the physical furniture of reality but also conditioning...