Word: liberalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intriguing sequence was first mentioned by Fibonacci in his book Liber Abaci, which was published in Pisa in A.D. 1202. To solve a hypothetical problem about the multiplication of rabbits,-he used the numerical series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, etc. Each number following the first 1 consisted of the sum of the two previous numbers. Fibonacci attached no great significance to the sequence, and it was generally ignored through the years by all but dedicated mathematicians. Then, in the early 1960s, Brother Alfred Brousseau, who teaches math at St. Mary's College...
...overriding concern of the delegates was the strong trend toward change in the Roman Catholic Church. Some participants warned that "liber alism" prepares the way for Communist infiltration of the U.S. and the Church. On hand were representatives of militantly anti-Communist groups ranging from the Young Americans for Freedom to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation. Lola Belle Holmes, a Negro who identified herself as a former undercover agent for the FBI within the Communist Party, declared that it is out "to capture the Catholic Church." The nation's only hope for leadership, she added, is George Wallace...
...reliance on action--confrontation and protest--rather than ideology has enabled SDS in the middle phase of its development to include a wide variety of personalities and interests. The organization can claim as members blue-collar militants of the Progressive Labor Party, as well as three-piece suit liberals from ADA. There are anarchist hippies, humanists, Communists and an increasing number of former members of Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair...
...ranks even more. In Kommunist, Economist G. Shubkin recently complained that two workers often shared the same task in 60 Moscow factories he studied. Shubkin's suggestion: with the "inevitable dismissal of this surplus labor," employment agencies should be set up to find jobs for the displaced workers. Liber-manist Efim Manevich made an even more daring proposal in the journal Problems of Economics. He suggested the introduction of unemployment compensation, a relic of capitalism that Stalin abolished 35 years ago. Manevich went on to urge another capitalist-toned remedy. Pointing out that the U.S.S.R. has far fewer retail...
Automation is also certain to liber ate both manpower and brainpower to tackle tasks hitherto considered impossible and to meet human needs till now deemed impractical. The world, after all, could certainly use a lot of improvement. "What the hell are we making these machines for," says Dr. Louis Fein, a California computer consultant, "if not to free people?" Many scientists hope that in time the computer will allow man to return to the Hellenic concept of leisure, in which the Greeks had time to cultivate their minds and improve their environment while slaves did all the labor. The slaves...