Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...However, even a superficial but full historical account of the times will show the 50 s as a time which was indeed painful, complicated and even life threatening for people of color. Civil rights were non-existent. Blacks did not vote or sit side-by-side with their fellow human beings in public places. Martin Luther King was actively engaged in the struggle for equality of all people. Women were mostly treated as sex objects. The portrayal of the 50 s in the light of this flier unintentionally excluded the experience of many thus perpetrating the sense of invisibility...
Alexander W. Astin of the University of California at Los Angeles Higher Education Research Institute is not worried. Astin feels that we need to emphasize the humanities more, so that we can tackle problems like world peace, poverty and bigotry. As he recently wrote in Science, "Our understanding of the physical universe has increased exponentially, while our understanding of the behavior of human beings and of societies has lagged far behind...
Astin is correct--since Plato's time we have not made quantum leaps in our understanding of human behavior. However this is not because of a national de-emphasis or misplaced priorities, but because human behavior may never be "understood" as the natural sciences...
...times the mayor seemed to be the only councillor interested in the human side of the evening's events. In the middle of debate on the complex Harvard Motor Inn development proposal, Vellucci brought up the acute shortage of textbooks in city schools...
...provides a funny, melodramatic hubbub to distract our attention. His busy plotting may require a suspension of incredulity, but he is well served by good actors; by a director, Pat O'Connor, with a taste for the acrid flavors of big-city life; and by his own delight in human eccentricity...