Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows in a symbolic way much of what is wrong with the liberal politician today. While looking all over the land for peoples to be saved-blacks, Puerto Ricans, the poor, Mexicans, Eskimos-Mr. Kennedy and his associates, when confronted with the opportunity of saving a single but real human life, failed miserably to take any action. They were paralyzed by "grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock...
...stated that Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield noted that after all, even a politician is human. What an asinine statement; Senator Mansfield should be ashamed of himself. Ted Kennedy's conduct was inhuman...
...recall a more successful program undertaken by the Government than our space program, which exceeded its goal sooner than planned and for less than originally estimated. Its usefulness cannot be overestimated. As stated in "SpinOffs from Space" [Aug. 1], the applicability of space-age technology in every field of human endeavor "is as wide-ranging as the human imagination." But because of its very conspicuousness, it has been attacked by all those so concerned with pressing problems here on earth, while they ignore the egregious crimes of Viet Nam and our military, which dwarf the space program both in money...
...investment," of "startup costs" to get the engine of social rehabilitation going, of work as "part of the American character." He was almost apologetic about the need to spend more federal funds initially. Failure to act, he said, would be more expensive in the long run in both human and economic terms. He underscored the decentralizing features of his plan. His welfare and revenue-sharing proposals, Nixon said, "represent the first major reversal of the trend toward ever more centralization of government in Washington." Initial congressional reaction was mainly favorable, but there is little chance of action on the Nixon...
...Film Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby) in the fashionable suburb of Bel Air, they found not one body but five. It was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of the human character...