Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass punishment of student protesters so far. It was also a proud experience for the demonstrators, who willingly paid the price for what they considered an antiwar stand. Dartmouth itself emerged with equal integrity. "My concern," says President Dickey, "is that youth's perennial commitment to a better human future should not today be betrayed by the most ancient aberration of hard-pressed humanity-the notion that anything goes in having your...
...controversial transplants performed recently in Houston were criticized on the grounds that they involved the application to human patients of techniques that had not been proved safe and effective in experiments with animals. Last week both cases had sequels...
...University College of Medicine, the college's board chairman charged. In a letter to the National Heart Institute, Baylor's Leonard F. McCollum said that the heart device had been developed under a grant from NHI, and was therefore subject to federal guidelines governing experimental application to human subjects. McCollum informed the institute that Dr. Domingo Liotta, the Argentine-born researcher who worked on the device, "has been suspended from all activities in the artificial-heart program at Baylor." Cooley himself, said an NHI spokesman, was not subject to the federal guidelines because he had no grant from...
...among rare butterflies. "Behind the ecstasy is something else which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern?to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal...
Despite such goings-on, at Cornell Nabokov's course in Modern Fiction (also known as Dirty Lit) became famous. Nabokov detested "oldfashioned human interest criticism." It consists, he once reprovingly wrote oldfashioned, human-interest Critic Edmund Wilson, "of removing the characters from an author's imaginary world to the imaginary, but generally far less plausible, world of the critic, who then proceeds to examine these displaced characters as if they were 'real people.'" He refused to deal in such "dreadful things as trends," or offer traditional chatter about themes and schools of literature. Instead, he performed brilliant, instant autopsies...