Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made. First, he pointed out, the gravediggers' union was affiliated with a Communist-dominated international (C.I.O.'s Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America). Second, the strikers' action was "an unjustified and immoral strike against the innocent dead and their bereaved families, against their religion and human decency...
...Pillars of Peace," which stressed the need for a postwar world organization. The second, at Cleveland in 1945, prophesied against the moral nihilism of the Dumbarton Oaks Charter and effectively demanded that the United Nations Charter should pay its respects to the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights. * This week's meeting was opened with a speech by John Foster Dulles, delegate to U.N., who, for eight years as Chairman of the Commission on A Just and Durable Peace, has led a devoted band of Christian thinkers in serious efforts to apply Christian principles to the tough...
...defense of unjustifiable attitudes. "Soviet leadership is astute in aiming its assaults against positions in the non-Communist world that are indefensible, morally or practically . . . We need not laud or sanctify whatever or whomever Communism attacks, and our material support should principally serve to sustain, fortify and enlarge human freedom and healthy economic and social conditions...
...churches' present great role, said Dulles, is to keep the U.S. from dehumanizing itself by becoming too preoccupied with such things as "atom bombs and jet bombers, super flattops and snorkel submarines." It is the Christian responsibility "to preserve in our nation human sympathy and compassion such as Jesus had when He saw the multitudes. If our churches perform that task . . . then perhaps it may be said to our nation: 'Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace...
Modern surgeons do an expert job of operating on human bodies, Drs. Lipkin and Joseph conceded, but too often they ignore human emotions. Everything would be fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...