Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inkeles and Bauer conclude that if Americans are not equal to the task of maintaining freedom, they must leave the Soviets to set the pattern of human existence...
...Tufts Arena Theater as The Burnt Flower-Bed, was written in 1952, near the end of the last great creative burst of its author, Ugo Betti. It is a play that states the problem of modern nihilism with uncompromising starkness and attempts to press beyond in the reaffirmation of human responsibility. Even a cursory reading of Betti's play in Henry Reed's excellent English translation makes it clear why Betti is being hailed on the continent as an even greater dramatist than Pirandello...
...make sure that all cancer victims who can be successfully treated get help, and to find ways of saving the half who are now doomed, NCI, a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, is mounting history's most intensive campaign against a human illness. Its budget is skyrocketing: from $14 million when Dr. Heller took over in 1948 to $75 million in the fiscal year just ended, to a probable $100 million in the fiscal year just begun. It musters the efforts of 675 direct employees and thousands of independent researchers through grants and contracts...
...experts are in close agreement on what cancer is. First, it is not one disease any more than "infection" is. Cancers ravage the entire plant and animal kingdoms. In man there are 200 to 300 kinds, though 90% of human cancers belong to 30 common types. So "cancer" is a collective term...
...pounds, or 73.3 pounds per cubic foot of booth. Since a cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds, we arrive at the figure 1.16 as the specific gravity of the students (not to be confused with the density of the students or their specific levity). Recalling, however, that the human body floats in water and therefore has a specific gravity of less than 1.0, we must conclude that it is impossible for 33 students to inhabit one phone booth. Q.E.D...