Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear that I had made an error." One of his colleagues, he recalled, was so sure that cancer was an unfathomable mystery that he said: "That can't have been a tumor if you found the cause of it." Today no line of investigation into the origins of human cancer is being pressed more vigorously than that implicating viruses as at least partly responsible. Though he has never worked with human cancers, and was technically "retired" for age 14 years ago, Peyton Rous still has the same staff, works as hard as ever hunting clues to cancer...
...have to be revised to cover them all. It still seems that something more than the virus alone is needed to trigger the outbreak of cancerous growth, e.g., chemical or physical irritation. But the importance of the virus can no longer be questioned. Still unknown is whether any human cancers are similarly caused...
Then he took off after another oracle, the late Socialist Harold Laski, who for years taught political science at the University of London. Laski, he charged, had no knowledge of how things operate in human affairs. "Laski, who could not ride a bicycle, said pretentiously and characteristically that if he only had the theory of bicycle riding explained to him, he would be able to ride it. The truth is quite simple, and has nothing to do with theory...
...Hire, The Ministry of Fear) the action does not so obviously develop under the eye of God and the sinners do not even know that they need a salvation, but they go through the moral wringer just the same, and pay in some way for every foray against human conscience...
Bell Telephone Science Series (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The University of Southern California's Professor Frank Baxter, whose TV fame rests largely on a pleasantly wind-blown approach to Shakespeare, turns popular scientist in Gateways to the Mind, which attempts to make sense of the human senses...