Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES-WORLD PREMIĒRE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Rod Serling's trilogy of strange human relation ships, Night Gallery, each tale focuses on a painting and the people involved with it. The first picture is of a tortured Jew in a concentration camp; Richard Kiley stars as an ex-Nazi. The second features Joan Crawford as an art-collecting blind woman who will do anything for a few hours of sight. The last painting shows first one, then several open graves, after Roddy McDowall decides to hurry the death of his rich uncle...
BESIDES the perceptive narrators who are able to maturely integrate their lives, Mr. Taylor describes those top-drawer people who grow into unhappy insurance men and car dealers. They are often incapable of a generous and rich relationship with a partner, with children, with-simply-any other human being. Mr. Taylor suggests that the family can effectively balance the fear and uncertainty of life. Yet this kind of security is not automatic. The man in "At the Drugstore" can say that he and his father "had . . . made these adjustments and concessions that a happy and successful life requires. . . . They...
Some would argue that it is impossible to make distinctions along the continuum, that in order to protect essential university activities, academic freedom must be extended to cover the entire continuum including even such projects as MIRV. Yet human beings spend much of their lives making just such fine distinctions: though it may be difficult, it is not impossible to decide what a university should and should not do. The distinctions thus made can be upheld-and the essential activities of a university protected-only if they are made rationally, through a continuing debate striving for a wide agreement...
...calling ourselves normal. We are giving up our heritage, our very lives. We know how we suffer. Only you will know how we suffer, because we will tell only you how we suffer." As a physician, I am bothered by this, because I deal with the suffering of human beings...
Berle has no faith in automatic human evolution for the better. His chief bias is an old New Deal planner's intolerance of chaos-which may not prove as intolerable as he thinks. His analysis of power is a great deal more congenial to the American mind than Machiavelli's, which separated power from ethics. In outlining a basis for the post-modern world. Berle makes clear that power succeeds only with the help of philosophers, whose task is to cause man to agree on ideas of good and evil...