Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Project plans drawn up at yesterday's NSA meeting include the tri-nations tours which the Radcliffe NSA chapter will conduct this summer, a human relations conference at BU March 12 and 13, and an Inter-School Culture Weekend, also...
Tolerance means that one does not use "racial characteristics" as the basis for treating human beings differently one from the other. But freedom from prejudice is a much broader attitude of mind. It means that one does not consider the color of a man's skin as any more significant than the color of his hair, or his shoe size, or the width of his waist. It means that one does not classify men by their skin colors unless for one's purpose in a specific situation such a classifications pertinent. To put it in an extreme form, it means...
This would be a dubious victory for Commissioner McDowell. His administration will probably prove efficient, and deal out punishment impartially to all prisoners. But the world famous program of Dr. Van Waters was not based on an icy prison mechanism. It rebuilt shattered human lives. the loss of such a program would hurt not only the Framingham Reformatory and the state of Massachusetts, but the intangible ideal of progressive public service with which Miriam Van Waters has become identified...
Tickle, Tickle. Koestler wants to show what forces cause human beings to think, to create and to destroy. As a "back door" into this problem, he begins by examining the forces that make men laugh. He shows, with the help of a number of geometric diagrams and a lot of peeking into the plumbing of "the sympathico-adrenal system," that laughter is a form of self-assertion. This section of the book also notes some pedagogical experiments in what Koestler gravely calls "the functioning of the original squirm reflex"-a phenomenon further documented in his book by laboratory experiments...
Koestler then goes on to examine the nature of weeping. Here, with the aid of more diagrams and excursions into "neurohormonal excitation," he succeeds in proving that weeping expresses the frustration of self-transcendence-a human tendency to be "aware of the self as part of a higher functional whole...