Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is too much attention self-revelation, cleverness, and form in many of the works being written today and not enough interest in the people of other times, in the variety of human experience," Gardner, who will present the first lecture November 19, said yesterday...
...think taking time off from Harvard is good in the respect that you can see how the real world functions," Eichner says. "You get a chance to deal with a more human side of life instead of just working within the tight narrow framework formed by studies and sports...
...thing I've learned in my experiences so far is that if the medical community revised their requirements to forego certain obstacles, they would produce doctors with more human qualities," Eichner says. "There is just no comparison between the pre-med scene and the real world of practical medicine...
...reneged on almost every important campaign promise he made the last time around, which should come as no surprise since he made contradictory promises, depending on his audience. Remember slashing the fat out of the defense budget? Remember overhauling a tax system that was a disgrace to the human race? Remember full employment? Remember Paul Warnke, ditched after negotiating SALT II to pacify the Neanderthals, and Andy Young, shot down by the Israeli lobby after talking to people of the Palestinian persuasion? Forget Jimmy Carter...
...calling for a constitutional convention to balance the budget. He's for cutting defense spending and conserving resources--and for a massive new space program. He's for making corporations more responsive to the public--and he is for abdicating governmental responsibility for physical and mental health, affordable education human services. Only in California...