Word: humanitarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brigham has sought since the day of its founding to inculcate in all of its people a sense of the unknown and the unknowable, a vigorous scientific curiosity, and a humanitarian concern for the sick. It has succeeded extra-ordinarily well," Berry commented...
...medical school is unique: it is part of the university's division of biological sciences, puts stress on research and theory as opposed to the "humanitarian" approach at many other medical schools. "You could be the most humane doctor in the world," explains Dean H. Stanley Bennett, "and if you're uneducated, you're no good." Chicago's medical students learn alongside biochemists, microbiologists, pharmacologists. More than half go on to teaching and research at other medical schools...
...Please don't," said the gentle old humanitarian as the boy moved to brush an insect off his sleeve. "That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs." Thus, at his jungle hospital near Lambarene, in Gabon, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 88, showed that the years have not dimmed his credo of reverence for life. His visitors were St. Louis Ad Executive Lisle M. Ramsey and Ramsey's ten-year-old son Max. Representing a citizens' committee affiliated with Religious Heritage of America, Inc., Ramsey had trekked to Lambar...
Colonel Steinbaum is a humanitarian. He works for the Third Reich, but he hates it. For one thing, his Jewish mistress has been hauled off to prison. For another, he is sickened by the brutality at the concentration camp where he is stationed. Steinbaum is on the verge of joining an anti-Nazi conspiracy when he makes the mistake of going to a party held by a high Nazi official in an elegant château. The symbol of Nazi Germany, Author von Abele suggests, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but this grand, lurid party...
...Just so has she played with all the marshal's flunkies, as if she were the marshal's accomplice in debasing them. In the grey, foggy dawn, Steinbaum staggers out of the château "like a hooligan drunkenly stumbling homeward after a nocturnal orgy." The humanitarian has been...