Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anxiety about the human situation" has produced the religious resurgence since the war, Tillich asserted. Contemporary man is experiencing a shocked awakening to the discovery that principles concerning "meaning of being" have disintegrated...
...faculty attitudes. It is common to suppose that scholars have almost unlimited horizons and that they communicate the magnitude of their vision to their students. Yet the very commitment of the scholar to veritas, while it lengthens his view in some directions, also blinds him to broad expanses of human experience...
...when more and more thinking people all over the world are concerning themselves with the dilemma of over-population, an institution like Widener Library should not withhold from its students any work which deals with a subject of such significance to the survival of mankind as the control of human reproduction. Karl Sax (Harvard M.S. '17, S.Sc. '22), Professor of Botany, President, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts...
...their wonders. Man's coarsest appetites and his noblest aspirations exist side by side in Odysseus, and he is as ready to seduce a simple girl by pretending to be a god as he is to admit his doubts about himself and the human condition...
Social Security. Although it is about bees, this is a human book. The sensitive might almost weep as Crompton tells how he has been obliged to silence diseased hives with Cyanogas, and heard the orchestral voice of his insect friends shut off "as if a hand had been placed over an echoing string." And he follows the worn old worker bee to her last rendezvous with social security. Her wings are torn; her last load of nectar is nothing much; she falls short of the hive. "Just at the time the youngsters at the hive are coming out for school...