Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...solution to the multibillion-dollar farm scandal-90% price supports -seemed no better than any answer offered before. His welfare programs, despite his reiterated pledge to retain a sound dollar, carried the threat of unbalanced budgets and more inflation at the same time that they strove to satisfy human needs. His pronouncements on the need for new diplomatic vigor in Western Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America were based on the assumption of a U.S. lag and his ability to recreate the atmosphere of F.D.R.'s Good Neighbor policy. But the specifics of foreign policy-on Cuba...
Supplementing their human talent, all three networks were picking electronic brains: ABC was back again with Univac; NBC had something called the RCA 501; CBS had turned to the IBM 7090. CBS and ABC got off to an erratic start, on the basis of too-early returns, with their brains predicting a Nixon victory all the way. But by 8:30 p.m. (E.S.T.), NBC's 501 had given the presidency to Kennedy; Univac and IBM 7090 rapidly got on the electronic bandwagon and all three remained in close agreement thereafter though sometimes oscillating wildly; at one point...
...Human & Divine. The Eastern gods were dark, ponderous, absolute. The Greeks challenged this authoritarianism with the restless spirit of inquiry. Against the hierarchy of the absolute, they set up "the prestige of the imaginary"-man's loftiest ideals fashioned in art. "The sacred was replaced by the sublime, the supernatural by the wondrous, and Fate itself by tragedy." Critics who believe that Greek sculptors were trying to achieve representational realism earn Malraux's ire. "Humanized but not human," a figure like the Winged Victory of Samothrace is no mere woman to Malraux, but an evocation of that "spark...
...seen small reason to assemble this bundle of his father's correspondence, some of it already mined by Ernest Jones in his famed biography of the Master. Freud's letters are not brilliant, witty, or especially intimate. But their truculent honesty makes for a paradoxical and amusingly human revelation. The dedicated psychologist of sex was no sophisticate, but a square...
...with a typically stoic detachment he himself recognized as chilly: "As a confirmed unbeliever I have no one to accuse and realize that there is no place where ] could lodge a complaint. Deep down I sense a bitter, irreparable narcissistic injury. My wife is profoundly affected in a more human way." The letters show how little Freud had to sustain him, except for psychoanalysis. He had no faith in progress or people: "In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless...