Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radiance, fierce-burning, superhuman intensity of human passion, shines and pours through the torment of Michelangelo's art. His Conversion of St. Paul, commissioned by Pope Paul III in 1542, has lightning in it. The lightning streams down from God's hand upon Paul, to reshape him utterly. This was the work of an artist who would do anything for his work but nothing for reward-a man inspired as St. Paul had been, and forever conscious of the lightning from above that would blaze through...
...Christians in the country, which had only a third of its present 91.6 million population. (About half a million are now Christian.) Buddhism was in decline; people were impressed by the Jesuits' European science and their surprising concern for social morality and the sanctity of human life. The success of the new religion soon convinced Japan's feudal warlords that Jesus Christ was dangerous competition, and they went to work with social pressure, torture and slaughter...
...should play in tax-supported schools. Nobody was entirely satisfied with religious "lessons" by secular teachers. Rabbi Gordis decried handing over the work of church and home to public schools, which might develop a "religion-by-rote." Agnostic Lekachman agreed: "I consider religion to be much too important in human history to see it reduced to a patriotic exercise in the classroom...
...with acetic anhydride, inject the resulting acetylated compound into rats. It appears to be taken up by the animals' systems in a way that blocks the effects of their own growth hormone. This beef-gland product does not work in man, but the researchers are trying to get human growth hormone and treat it the same...
There was no such animal-human barrier in the work of team members headed by Dr. Leon Hellman. They were dealing with the breakdown products of natural human hormones as they go through the metabolic cycle. From the breakdown of testosterone and related hormones the researchers found two potent derivatives: androsterone and etiocholanolone, with properties different from those of their parent substances. Example: androsterone lowers the level of circulating cholesterol (though testosterone may raise it), may thus be useful in combating atherosclerosis and reducing the danger of heart attacks and many strokes; etiocholanolone triggers a rise in body temperature...