Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retrospective notes and criticism, the prolific novelist provocatively drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey...
...appalled that 823 of your readers felt it was their place to pass judgment on Senator Kennedy's action. Perhaps your readers have never experienced an emotion called shock. It is not the place of one human being to judge what degree of shock another should or can experience, or to judge what the response to an unexpected, tragic situation will...
...apes. From this evidence they drew two important conclusions: 1) Rama probably ventured into open country to forage for tougher foods than were available to apes ("the lotus eaters of the primates"), who stayed behind in the forests; and 2) he matured more slowly than apes, and more as human youngsters do, thus gaining valuable additional time to learn more skills during childhood...
...kind of male pseudo-female impersonation act. It is to the credit of all concerned that Staircase is nothing of the sort. The foremost of the film's quiet, unobtrusive virtues is that it never caricatures or snickers or casts its two deviates outside the circle of the human family...
...zeal to point out liberal shortcomings, Lowi may blame liberalism for failures due to the largeness of the state and its duties, human folly in general, human greed in particular. But his book is a useful and often fascinating corrective to much current theorizing about liberalism, government and decentralization. There is considerable evidence, moreover, that many Americans, growing as generally outraged about the state of the nation as Ralph Nader specifically was about the quality of U.S. automobiles, are willing to take stern measures to be sure that the machinery of government is well made and well...