Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conversation, really, an intimate conversation among friends about a common and beloved friend. And when Julian Bond was speaking of America's racism and insensitivity, of its terrible waste of human life, one thought of the words Ossie Davis has spoken moments before, "The spirit of DuBois is not dead. Somewhere in this land, perhaps right here among us there is another DuBois to point the way. The line is unbroken...
...Many human beings convert only 1% of their cyclamate intake to CHA, and so minute a quantity might well be harmless. But for unknown reasons other, equally "normal" people convert as much as 40% to CHA; if they are heavy users of cyclamates, the resulting high dose of CHA might cause cancer or other diseases. Like countless other chemicals, cyclamates also cause breaks in the chromosomes of both man and animals, but the genetic significance of these breaks is not yet known...
...trouble with cyclamates (besides the sodium compound, there is a calcium combination for patients on low-salt diets) is that they do not behave predictably in the human body-unlike sugar, which is completely and naturally metabolized. Cyclamates break down in the body, forming chemicals, notably cyclohexylamine (CHA). This, in large doses (upwards of 50 times the probable human dose of cyclamate), is known to cause bladder cancer in rats. Because of the emergence of CHA, cyclamates injected into incubating eggs cause grotesque deformities in many of the chicks and kill others in the shell...
...pages. Harper & Row. $10. In a book much talked about since its 1964 publication in France, the world's most fascinating social anthropologist studies scores of primitive mythologies, searching for a common code that he hopes will reveal the laws that govern the creative workings of the human mind...
...ANGELS by Theodora Ward. 241 pages. Viking. $7.50. Angelic evolution-from divine messenger to artistic symbol-delicately traced through religion, literature and the dark corners of the human mind...