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Word: humanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sakharov's prime example of progress in the socialist system, embarrassingly enough for the Kremlin, is Czechoslovakia. The universal human need for intellectual freedom, he says, "has been understood in particular by the Czechoslovaks, and there can be no doubt that we should support their bold initiative, which is so valuable for the future of socialism and all mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Russian Physicist's Passionate Plea for Cooperation | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

Owings places most of his faith in plain human reasonableness. The present supercompetition between building owners, with all their pride in towers, will eventually give way to the recognition of common concerns. And it is this comforting faith in reason that makes Owings predict: "We are going to reach the point where environment planning will be the supreme thing in this country. It will be the equivalent of the railroad and highway booms. Then perhaps we can change and begin to build as did the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Egyptians?begin to build a real environment that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: To Cherish Rather than Destroy | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...Owings. "There is no possibility of their dying. They are viable, they are vibrant and their growth is rank." By the year 2000, some 400 million Americans will be living in roughly the same areas as today. The question is: Can they do so and remain more or less human? "The answer," says Owings, "has to be yes, and the strategy of accomplishment must come in the next 15 years. The urgency is greater than that of developing the atomic bomb in the 1940s or reaching the moon in the 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: To Cherish Rather than Destroy | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...League, argues that most slum children are potential college .material-shrewd, realistic decision makers whose choices often determine their own survival. "A kid who grows up on the streets," says Oostdyk, 35, who dropped out of New York University to become a youth worker, "is vastly more sensitive to human need and responses than most middle-class kids." The tragedy is that public schools have been unable to tap that potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools: Academies for Dropouts | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

Transplantation of a human heart is without a doubt the most dramatic feat of modern surgery. Yet while the heart is only a pump, the liver, by contrast, is an immensely complex processing factory, with dozens of functions involving the chemistry of metabolism. Transplantation of a liver is far more difficult than that of a heart, and so far equally rare. Eight patients who have received new livers at three U.S. medical centers within the past year are now alive. In the early days of liver transplantation, survival for a month was considered remarkable. Last week one of the patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: Harder Than Hearts | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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