Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great human stories of Washington.'' mused the New York Times's Chief Washington Correspondent James Reston last week, "are beyond the scope of daily journalism." He was rejecting on the "rough time" that daily journalism had in trying to explain why the Senate refused to confirm Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. It was the onrush of the great human story in the Strauss affair that TIME reported in its June 15 cover story on Strauss, a story that prepared readers for the thorny issues and the thornier human personalities involved. With weekly journalism's advantages...
...Prime Ministers, collectively, steer the Commonwealth of Nations, but it is Elizabeth's ennobling and historically new role to be the single human figure in the great association that symbolizes and inspires its unity and continuity. Calmly seeing her duty, she has pledged herself to a Commonwealth "built on the highest qualities of the spirit of man: friendship, loyalty, and the desire for freedom and peace. To that new conception of an equal partnership of nations and races I shall give myself heart and soul every day of my life...
Princeton University Marian Anderson, singer, alternate U.S."' delegate to the U.N L.H.D. Citation: "Her transcendent powers of human understanding have made her our most influential cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman...
...speakers at the public sessions of the conference on scientific creativity are: J. Bronowski, Director of the Coal Research Establishment of the National Coal Board, England, and author of The Common Sense of Science and Science and Human Values; James A. Shannon, Director of the National Institute of Health; Emmanuel R. Piore, Director of Research at the I.B.M. Corporation; and H. B. G. Casimir of the Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands...
...lion duly eviscerates the tribesman, but just as he is about to dispatch him, up runs the warden. Which to shoot? He hesitates for several paragraphs between his pledge to protect all animals and "an instinctive feeling of solidarity with [the man] rooted in the first dawn of human awareness...