Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Last spring, for example, the Committees of Correspondence, including professors David Riesman and H. Stuart Hughes, proposed "destruction of thermonuclear weapons" as an "independent American initiative." Admitting that unilateral disarmament would invite Soviet invasion and conquest, the Committee stated reassuringly that such tyranny would fall "within the limits of human experience." And bravely, the group accepted "responsibility for developing effective ways of keeping alive our basic values"--some sort of "non-military methods of resistance...
...because it tacitly accepted the alternatives of either annihilation-risked or surrender-chosen. Since all signs suggest an increasingly unstable arms race, the Committee simply decided that it is better to live as a slave (hoping and working for a brighter tomorrow) than to end civilization and perhaps the human race...
...later on. Psychologist Bruner suggests that literature may be taught the same way. Given the first part of a story, a child could be trained to complete it as a tragedy or a farce long before he understood those words. A young child should be introduced early to great human themes. "A curriculum ought to be built around the great issues, principles and values that a society deems worthy of the continual concern of its members...
...Game Hunter's travelogue, or to the kind of man-with-a-cause book that lets the reader see clearly how noble the author is. Most of Barker's record is painstakingly unspectacular: daily contacts with household crises, the long nights' journeys into human understanding when a patient is saved by candlelit surgery, or when one more dark-skinned child is brought into a segregated world...
...blood as well as the vast bond of compassion, since his father's people had come down from the hills back of Knoxville. But Agee also felt that he was an alien and a spy, prying into the lives of an "undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings." He tried to find at least partial absolution in sleeping in beds that swarmed with fleas, lice and bedbugs, gasping through the offal stench, and ignoring his nausea to "eat for a few weeks what a million people spend their lives eating...