Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to Nazi mass murder. At the time, the 1946 resolution against genocide and the convention were viewed as vital components of an international prevention of this crime. As Allen Barth noted in 1948, this concrete stance against evil was necessary because the Holocaust was an event that "the human mind finds it difficult to remember, as it found it difficult to grasp." The resolution and convention were supposed to overcome this awe-inspired inertia by giving all nations "the legal right to intervene in any country where genocide is committed...
...Rand's own pleasure was directly proportionate to what he was able to give. The two of them together, he thought, were like compound turbines increasing each other's rpm reciprocally until they went through the red line and fused from the heat of a passion that exceeds human design limits...
...dealing with the greatest single concentration of power over human lives," he said, adding, "We accept the notion that this is a commodity that is to be used for profit. I suggest that you reassess this assumption...
...There are 50 doctors in the whole of Cambodia, there are 350 in Paris alone. The government has eight cars and there are four locomotives in the whole country. Pol Pot just destroyed the human society's ability to survive. The end result of all the wars is a society going towards extinction," Howard said...
...farsighted, however, its failure to recognize the plant's potential impact on the community was inexcusable. The University ploughed ahead with its plans, advancing huge sums of money for its pet project. Harvard had to know that its diesel engines would produce nitrogen dioxides--said to be harmful to human and animal health in certain doses--but it sidestepped the problem. When community groups in the Mission Hill area broached the subject, the University blanched--and hired teams of experts to do air pollution impact studies...