Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves not to do anything "against [the state's] interests, security or integrity." But later the bishops instructed the priests to take the oath with the qualification, ". . . Since I am convinced that the government would never ask anything which would be contrary to the laws of God or human rights...
...human side, the U.S. deal with Newfoundland looked every bit as sound. In 1940 President Roosevelt, announcing the 99-year lease of the bases from England, had called them "gifts, generously given and gratefully received." Since then, both sides seemed to live up to the spirit of the exchange. Some 900 U.S. servicemen married Newfoundland girls. Yank troops visited Newfoundlanders' homes; islanders were invited to the Americans' parties and theaters. To all appearances, the hospitable Newfies and the free-spending Yanks had worked out a near-perfect landlord & tenant arrangement with never a thought of breaking the lease...
Psychoanalysts and the friendly clergymen, says Author Kristol, tend to talk about human happiness instead of truth: they "blithely agree that religion and psychoanalysis have at heart the same intention: to help men 'adjust' ... to make them happy or virtuous or productive...
Orthodox psychoanalysis and religion, says Kristol, will never agree on truth. The issue between them is simple and clear-cut. Religion asserts "that the understanding of psychoanalysis is only a dismal, sophisticated misunderstanding, that human reason is inferior to divine reason, that the very existence of psychoanalysis is a symptom of gross spiritual distress . . . Psychoanalysis, religion might say, comes not to remove insanity, but to inaugurate...
...irony. For years the social scientists, and the physical scientists as well, have decried the "cultural lag"--the inability of the social sciences to catch up with the advances of the physical sciences. This lag is blamed for the faltering success of democracy and the chronic inability of the human race to live peacefully with itself...