Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while embodying the spirit and idealism of Carter's Human Rights policy, he also became at times a loose cannon on deck, damaging not only his own image but that of the President who loyally kept him in office...
ROBERT LUCAS, 41. The "rational expectations" economists hold that short-term policy jiggering cannot outsmart human ingenuity, or, you can't fool all the people even some of the time. One principal in this school is Lucas of the University of Chicago. Says he: "The real amount of goods and services available cannot be manipulated effectively by short-term market interferences. Such policies are based on the premise that we, the Government, can make people work harder, invest more or perform some other desired objective. But people are skeptical, so such policies do not work any more. The public...
...theory is still far from proved, but it could have important consequences. If human tumors turn out to work in the same way, more effective strategies against cancer could be developed. One possibility is already being tried by specialists: administering anti-clotting drugs to prevent fibrin deposits...
...would be 'interesting' to know which. We tell ourselves that it makes some difference whether the naked woman is about to commit a mortal sin or is about to register a political protest or is about to be, the Aristophanic view, snatched back to the human condition by the fireman in priest's clothing just visible in the window behind her, the one smiling at the telephoto lens. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable...
This is incomplete knowledge because it is only rational. We hold back from the leap of despair that would let us see that human society always carries within it the capacity to commit such butcheries and think well of itself. Yet as World War II recedes into the past, the death camps have become part of the common memory of those who were neither victims nor executioners, but who share uncomfortably the humanity of each...