Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books, and the triumph of attention, all amidst the background of convulsion in the world. After a terse notation of atrocities ("Bali invaded. Java invaded. Paris bombarded by the English, India rebelling against the English") Nin wrote: "And what can one do but preserve some semblance of human life, to seek the not-savage, not-barbaric forms of life...
...that the Brooks subcommittee "found no evidence for the claim that the kind of research proposed under the Project was inherently 'immoral' or 'repressive.'...[it found that] the Project has been basic research, unrelated to military programs except in the sense that such research relates to all programs involving human beings...
...minority. The crisis of authority in the cities- the riots, the white backlash, the flight of the mayors-originates in the social disorganization of the black poor. A heavy emphasis on environment is regarded by many black political activists as demeaning. Moynihan, though, steadfastly believes that the ghettoes are "human cesspools" and that the government should relocate blacks throughout the metropolitan area...
...result in intricate warfare. Whether or not it increases the self-reliance of the blacks, in the white areas localism means law-and-order and school segregation. Moynihan ignores these unhappy political realities. To him, the neighborhood-oriented approach is self-defeating if the neighborhoods are human cesspools. Though he may be right, the relocation proposal is foolishly bucking a powerful trend on the most volatile of issues...
...night pond, the sound of one hand... And all of this in an age of writing focussed so compulsively inward! In the tradition that extends from Eliot to Lowell and those between, most poets write of themselves, in a style which Bly calls the reporting of "news of the human mind." Involved, ego-centered, almost embarrassingly self-aware, many contemporary poets seem to live to reveal, to confess. Again the style is very, very good . But Plath writing about an intensely personal insanity...