Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon, their feat was far more than a national triumph.* It was a stunning scientific and intellectual accomplishment for a creature who, in the space of a few million years?an instant in evolutionary chronology?emerged from primeval forests to hurl himself at the stars. Its eventual effect on human civilization is a matter of conjecture. But it was in any event a shining reaffirmation of the optimistic premise that whatever man imagines he can bring to pass...
...Lepis of Brooklyn: "It's the greatest thing that could happen to this country. It's definitely an American triumph." Houston Cameraman Ron Bozman argued: "The moon is there and we Americans have to get there first." More often, the moon mission evoked an exhilarating sense of human solidarity and potential. "I believe it's man's greatest achievement to date," said Barry Davidoff, 16, a student at the Bronx High School of Science. "It's a triumph for everybody...
...some, Apollo 11 's mission to the moon means hope for a less anthropocentric view of man and a new perspective on the human condition. "I think if we can get so far away from ourselves, we should be able to look back down here and see how tiny the earth is," said Rita Moore, an Atlanta secretary. "Maybe we'll be able to see now that we're all on a small planet and we ought to be working together." Said famed Biochemist Isaac Asimov: "It will teach us to be humble. The earth...
...join many other college generations in giving thanks for this supreme teacher, supreme conductor, supreme human being--G. Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, B.A., M.A., Mus. Doc., Litt. D. He was all of this--triumphantly. But most important, was Woody. His favorite novelist, Joseph Conrad, once wrote that "a man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reasons of respect or natural love." In Woody's case, it was both...
Learned Response. Dr. Peter Lang, research professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, has applied autonomic learning to control the human heart rate. Attached to a monitor, a subject is told to watch a TV-like screen and to make the moving lines on it shorter, corresponding to a slower heart rate. Without any conscious effort or muscle tensing, the lines shorten, the rate slows, the subject becomes able, as Lang puts it, "to drive his own heart." Lang has not probed for an explanation beyond showing that the changing heart rate is indeed a learned response. The unconscious...