Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further said that liberalism is not merely the power of the purse, but it is idealism. There has been a change in what we call liberalism-into a qualitative liberalism with emphasis on civil liberties, human rights, and the relationship of our nation to the world about...
...fact, something about the sight of automated soldiering seemed to provoke an irrepressible urge in passers-by to make the sentries convict themselves of being still human. Girls took to throwing their arms around the guards while chums snapped pictures to be sent home. Some sentries suffered the indignity of having toffee apples stuck on their bayonets; others found as they started off on their 25 paces that their shoelaces had been tied together. This summer has been especially galling: tourists have poked, tickled, thrown banana peels or ice-cream cups underfoot, sung out derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed...
...still "something to do"-help prepare the natives for independence. Mission success notwithstanding, most of New Guinea's tribes are still warlike, and some even practice cannibalism. In 1957 the government caught four young cannibals after their tribe had defeated another (with axes and knives made of human bones) and feasted on the losers. Police handed the cannibals over to the mission for rehabilitation. Under the tutelage of Los Angeles Mission Teacher Frances Dills, 50, the author of an unpublished manuscript, My Caddy Is a Cannibal, the boys reformed, learned manners, and, says she, "they are probably the only...
...wondrous new refinement is an eye developed by the Army Signal Corps in collaboration with Hazeltine Corp. It can stare through darkness or fog at a terrain of tangled scrub and tell if a man is crawling through it two miles away; it can look at a walking human six miles away and tell whether its target is male or female...
Cromwell failed, says Author Macken, because of "little men" like Dominick MacMahon, who proved that the human back is stronger than the oppressor's whip. Surviving the siege of Drogheda-during which his wife is murdered and one child struck dumb-stubborn Dominick dodges his way through sacked and smoking Ireland accompanied by a saintly priest, helped by Irish guerrillas and making the customary hairbreadth escapes from gun and gallows. Author Macken brings such sweeping lyricism to this flight as to make it seem that plucky Dominick is battling his way the length of Siberia instead of the mere...