Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...face of the Pakistani official was ashen. Fresh from an inspection of the cyclone-ravaged coastline of the Bay of Bengal, he described the scene: "No vulture, no dog, and even no insects were to be found anywhere. Just heaps of human bodies and carcasses." More than two weeks after the storm had shrieked across the low-lying Ganges River Delta, the enormity of the havoc wrought by its 120-m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves could still only be sensed, not measured. Toward week's end, some 6,000 Ansar militiamen and volunteers trudged into the flatlands...
...fact that white men had been in the landing party infuriated other black African governments. Their reaction recalled a Touré maxim from the early 1960s, when Pan-Africanism was more vibrant than it is now: "Africa is like a human body. If one finger is cut, the whole body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan...
...space odyssey 2001, the most intriguing character is not flesh and blood but an extraordinary computer called HAL (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer). Amazingly lifelike, HAL speaks with flawless diction, calmly disposes of almost any problem and-when it turns "psychotic"-does the same to most of the human crew. Could Clarke's fantasy also be prophecy? Perhaps. In a chilling augury of the cybernetic future, scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have now created a computer that in some ways approaches HAL's versatility. In at least one vital respect it actually rivals its fictional...
...long and too aimlessly. Husbands' scenes go on even longer than those in Faces, but they maintain a perfect emotional pitch. Cassavetes lets Gus, Archie and Harry reveal themselves at their own rate. They become by turns boyish, noisy, sloppy, silly, sentimental and obnoxious, but never less than human...
Rosenblatt came under heavy criticism for his role as member of the Committee of Fifteen. His articulate defense of the Committee's actions as, essentially, reasonable human choices in an unreasonable, inhuman world won him a large moderate following...