Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearty thanks to TIME for the fine summary [Sept. 8] of the Lambeth conference statement advocating contraception and birth control. It is so much more sensible, dignified-and Christian-than the stand taken by the Roman church, which reduces human beings to the level of animals having physical relations solely for the purpose of producing offspring...
...sperm is consistently blocked from reaching the egg, and intercourse between man and woman proceeds with the knowledge of this separation between them, the human being shows himself to be not only smarter than the animals but also capable of greater ennui. Where is the love in that, and to what is the sex act reduced...
...trouble, of course, is that many people, uninformed of the latest of many recent changes, telephone the old number. Such is human frailty that men too often err; and such is University wisdom that a recorded announcement--spoken incidentally by a seductive female voice--directs the dialer to the correct number...
...does Mr. Robinson's single contribution of poetry in the magazine lend itself to utter enlightenment. His poem, modestly spread across the center-fold of his 16-page publication, is graphically in the form of a giant phallic symbol, rising, one gathers, from the base of mediocrity and human rubbish. Mr. Robinson displays an amazing knowledge of six, seven, and eight-letter words, including poniard (spelled poignard, with which Webster is unfamiliar, on the preceding page by Harry Kemp, described as "a former friend of Eugene O'Neill") and cautery, the household word of course for what happens when...
...missiles brought new Link trainers-for jet fighters and bombers, transpolar celestial navigation, and for the Matador, Sparrow and other missiles. Link trainers are now being used to go through dry runs on test firings of space shots. Says Link: "Some of our missile failures were traced to human errors. In the boredom of a countdown, somebody forgot to push a button...