Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calendar of triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during...
...would have been amazed to know that, for good & ill, the next 50 years were to belong to the politician and his uneasy stepbrother, the soldier. Change churned up elemental issues of human freedom and organization that had to be fought out in the politicians' arena. Some of the politicians were of a familiar parliamentary type: Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Clemenceau. Some were soldier-politicians: Chiang Kaishek, Kâmâl Atatürk. Some were agitators and conspirators: Lenin, Stalin, Tito, Mao Tse-tung. One, Gandhi, was a saintly organizer. Some-Mussolini, Hitler-were pure dynasts, dealing with...
Levels of Culture. These students of culture (Professor Leslie A. White of the University of Michigan wants to call them "culturologists") divide human history into "levels of energy use." All life, including human life, they hold, struggles to capture free energy. Men first captured energy by gathering edible wild plants or by catching edible wild animals. This method, used until about 5000 B.C., yielded poor returns. Man never raised a high culture on what nature put directly in his hands...
...atomic power has not been used for any constructive purpose. The most important peacetime gifts of the fissioning atoms are radioactive tracers, which have already revolutionized biology and medical research. Biologists hope that such research will produce a cure for cancer. It may postpone senility; many physiologists believe that human beings could live vigorously for 125 years if the chemistry of their bodies were understood. The greatest promise of level four culture is practically costless power. There have been guesses about how it might be used: in air-conditioning cities, freshening seawater for irrigating deserts, blasting away mountain ranges...