Word: humaneness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americans who had made it. We were socially and politically involved. We had all the security one could ask for, and we were miserable. We had everything one could want materially, and we felt increasingly empty. We had all the latest in status symbols, and we discovered that the human elements were missing...
...golden sunlight that followed the demonic storm, the survivors could see horrendous devastation on every side. Oceangoing ships were torn apart in the turbulent bay or driven aground and left stranded. Beaches and whole islands were strewn with bodies. On 13 small islands near Patuakhali, not a single human being was left alive. Paddies were blackened with salt water, the rice crop destroyed. "It looks like a graveyard with no sign of life," an official reported after flying over Hatia Island. At one village, when a newsman asked why hundreds of bodies had been left unburied, a man cried...
...says Khrushchev, "that Stalin started to be not quite right in the head." Khrushchev, then party boss of the Ukraine, faced an appalling food shortage caused by war damage and a severe drought. Thousands died of starvation, and Khrushchev even began hearing of cannibalism, including one report that a human head and a pair of feet-apparently all that remained after a corpse had been eaten-had been found under a bridge. Yet Stalin refused to provide food-rationing cards or reduce quotas on farm produce that was shipped out of the Ukraine. "He would...
...that the chimps' treatment of their young produces well-balanced adults. In raising infants, for example, chimps practice discipline by distraction, a technique that worked very well with Grub; instead of punishing him when he was troublesome, his mother amused him by giving him her undivided attention. While human beings and hyenas often let their unhappy offspring scream interminably, Jane notes, "chimps keep their babies happy by cuddling them whenever they want it. I preferred the chimp way, so I cuddled Grub lots." In aping the apes, however, she was flexible. Young chimps, when they are naughty, usually...
...certain that there was once a man called Freud. He lived in Vienna from 1860 to 1938, and by using a new therapeutic technique called psychoanalysis, he evolved a radical theory of human personality based on the importance of early childhood and its persistence as a state of mind in everyone. But. as Auden has remarked, Freud has been transmogrified into "a whole climate of opinion...