Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Freudian thinkers, mostly stranded in the formative childhood stage, Erikson's concept was liberating. With the whole of human life their province, psychoanalysts could look cultural anthropologists or social psychologists in the eye and start sharing observed knowledge. The concept has also convinced a whole younger generation of social activists-including Author Coles -that children more than five years old are not irrevocably molded and that those who are poor in their early years can later make up for their deprived background...
...pollyanna. At every turn, he believes, there is as much chance for psychic catastrophe as for emotional growth. "When I talk about hope and basic trust," he says, "I am not referring to good manners or to the niceties of personality, but to the minimum conditions for human survival...
...Pines also saw signs of progress. In Upper Silesia's grimy cities-Katowice, Swietochlowice, Chorzow-bulldozers are pushing slag heaps into craters caused by crumbling mines. Carefully planned parks and green belts are starting to sprout on the reclaimed land. Government officials now demand attention to "the human element" in all new projects-less noise, better designed apartments, conveniently located cultural facilities. More important, the causes of pollution are slowly being controlled. In the past four years, 14% of the mining and power industries' capital investment went for environmental safeguards. Compulsory filters in factory stacks have...
...nearly as a Beatle could, George Harrison led the life of an invisible man. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were hailed as genius pop composers. Ringo Starr, the catalyst who served as a human buffer between conflicting egos, was constantly stirring affectionate chuckles. George was the quiet, apparently dependent...
Perhaps the single most important thing about All Things Must Pass is that Harrison is as deeply into affirmation as the Dylan of old was into protest. Harrison clearly agrees with the old Indian belief that music has the power to change human destiny. In Art of Dying, George is talking mainly about Hinduism, yet his lyrics have universal appeal...