Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monuments of unageing intellect...
BANKS: The routine chores required to keep money transactions straight, Ramo argues, are "as unsuitable for the human intellect as pulling huge stones to build the Pyramids was for human muscles. Some day, currency and coins will be only for the rural areas. If you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb before an electronic scanner will identify you, and the network will debit your account and credit the seller...
...contrasting names of the four men who created element 103 are characteristic of U.S. science, which wears its "democracy of the intellect" mantle with a casual air and generally opens its door to everyone regardless of national, racial, religious or social background...
...point to a deeper relationship between the rise of scientific method and the various types of anxiety. The misapplication of this method, coupled with a strange mixture of rationalism and naturalism, may be costing man his spiritual soul. Paul Tillich suggests that man has been "divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality." Perhaps our spiritual anxiety indicates that we are not completely lost...
...Exercise of the free intellect will in no way endanger the country's internal security," the statement says, and it asserts, "Not only teachers, but all Americans, we insist, must be free from trial by publicity--from what Mr. Justice Black has called 'exposure, obloquy, and public scorn...