Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robot with unsuspected autodidactic capabilities escapes the arm of the military-industrial complex that created him, suspensefully eludes the small army sent out to capture him and, along the way, turns himself into a philosopher of the liberal-humanist persuasion. If the irony that a cute thinking machine might be able to teach real people something about moral philosophy appeals to you, then you may like Short Circuit. If, on the other hand, your taste in robots runs toward the apolitical comedy of Artoo Detoo, then Director John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent...
...military has created tensions between the superpowers in order to maintain high levels of military spending, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith told an audience of nearly 150 people at a Humanist Association meeting last night...
Galbraith was named "Humanist of the Year" last year by the National Association of Humanists--an association of those who say they reject all faith and endorse only those judgments which are made by the rational mind...
...magazine also will include articles written from a secular point of view because, Lelon said, many people organize their lives according to humanist or scientific beliefs instead of religious ones...
...Growing Pains, Alan Thicke, the former talk show host, plays a psychiatrist who sets up an office at home while his wife (Joanna Kerns) goes off to work and his children attack him with lines like "You can't hit me, you're a liberal humanist." The only comedy to venture out of the house this season is CBS's hourlong Stir Crazy, based on the phenomenally successful 1980 movie starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The pilot episode is cluttered with subplots and juvenile slapstick. But the show has a pair of appealing stars (Larry Riley and Joseph Guzaldo...