Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Fallouts has decided that the human body can stand twice as much Strontium 90 as they previously thought possible, it is nice to know that someone is still thinking about ending nuclear bomb tests. President Eisenhower's note to Khrushchev this week asking for a stoppage of tests in the atmophere thirty miles above the earth--permitting underground tests until a satisfactory inspection system can be set up--suggests that the Administration is more than casually interested in the success of talks on this subject...
...only with great difficulty to anything approaching the sublime. After all, though a tinkle-tinkle here and there in a Webern score may satiate one's thirst for the piquant and highly flavored, it does not quench the far more important thirst of the soul. Elevated feeling in the human spirit is generally ignored by modern composers, but it is an important response to the musical art. Any thinking person who made a list of the ten greatest compositions would have to include some exalted music--like the Sanctus of Bach's B Minor Mass, or Mozart's Magic Flute...
...discoveries have three important results. First, since researchers now feel that all cases of cerebral palsy (malfunctioning of the human nervous system), are the result of harmful influences during the growth of the embryo, no cure can be effected till the normal process of growth is fully understood. Hicks' experiments have added greatly to this understanding...
...that he is part of the American folk, although he is probably one of the few Exeter and Harvard students to admit it. No matter how you feel about Seeger's political opinions, it is difficult to deny that his convictions are formulated from a genuine love of the human race...
...politics. For example, songs of unrequited love are really protests against unrequition. Or the child who sings "I hate Bosco, it's bad for you and me' is displaying a form of juvenile protest. I wish people could think of protest songs as covering the whole range of human experience...