Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...serves to make man "at home in the world," Fromm continued. But this is not at all the same thing as "adjustment," and analysis must deal with religious, philosophical, and political concerns. Psychoanalysis must help men revolt from a social order "which demands that they not be very human," Fromm insisted...
Intransigence on both sides could bring new riots on Nov. 3, Panamanian Independence Day. But General Bogart has already proved that behind angry faces there is a big reservoir of ordinary human friendship on the isthmus...
Insect chemical detectors (sense of smell) are amazingly good too. Among the best are those of male moths that can smell a female of their own species a long distance away, apparently detecting a single molecule of a specific chemical. Human chemists cannot do this, even with the most subtle laboratory apparatus...
Even more important are the devices by which living creatures make use of information from their senses and store it for future use. Scientists have known for years that brains, human and animal, are efficient computers of enormous complexity. Like up-to-date man-made computers they turn information that comes from the senses into digital (numerical) code for transmission along the nerves. Deep in the brain itself the digital code is converted into analogue (quantitative) code for mixing with other information. Said Savely: "Here we come up against organized complexity carried to unimaginable extremes. The evolutionary culmination of this...
...Hostage (by Brendan Behan) seems much less a play than a dramatization of its playwright: sprawling, shocking, howlingly off-key, marvelously in tune, humane and hilarious. What story there is turns on a young English soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin brothel against the Belfast hanging of an Irish patriot. Under Joan Littlewood's brilliant direction, this proves story enough to provide a real center of feeling among all the vaudeville tricks, freak-show tactics, music-hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make...