Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these institutions; (3) an awareness of the fact that public problems involve a complex of elements--social, political, technological, legal, and administrative; (4) an appreciation of the nature of administrative and political processes, their significance in the formulation and execution of policy, and the importance of ethical values in human relations; and (5) a high degree of proficiency in one of the established social science areas...
...University of Minnesota's Epidemiologist Leonard M. Schuman, the more he has to learn about controlling them. And this circular motion has speeded up enormously. Up to 1947 only 60 viruses had been listed as causing disease in man, and a mere 20 of these singled out the human species as their prime prey. The rest, like the one that causes eastern equine encephalitis (TIME, Oct. 5), normally attack lower animals, infect man accidentally, said Dr. Schuman...
...ailing human and his physician, a major difficulty is that viruses cannot be identified by the disease they cause-many different ones may produce seemingly identical symptoms. And a single virus may touch off, in different people, symptoms ranging from a "cold," a "sore throat," or "fever" to paralytic polio. Even paralytic polio cannot be diagnosed as surely as was believed in what Dr. Schuman called "the happy, unenlightened first quarter of this century," because several viruses simulate its signs. Even such time-honored children's infections as measles, German measles and mumps may deceive the physician. So, said...
...daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because it helped Flem to become the bank's president. Behind him he left a trail of foreclosed mortgages, underhanded legal victories, cold-blooded assaults on human decency. In him Faulkner raised a monument not only to the worst kind of Southerner, but to the worst in man everywhere. When, in the present book, Flem is murdered by a pathetically ignorant relative for the best of Snopes reasons, the killing seems not only justifiable but long overdue...
Chevalier's most tantalizing implication is that Bloch, blind as Oedipus in his pride, believes that only he can control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer...