Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the fire bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, outrageous, funny, profoundly rueful fable tries to say something about the timeless nature of human cruelty and self-protective indifference...
TORREGRECA, by Ann Cornelisen. Full of an orphan's love for her adopted town, the author has turned a documentary of human adversity in southern Italy into the unflinching autobiography of a divided heart...
Howard received a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard in 1956, was for some years a professor in the Politics Department at Brandeis University, later served as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in the Philippines and as Director of the Institute of Human Relations at the University of Wisconsin, and is now Vice President of the Danforth foundation. The 38 year-old Dr. Harding is chairman of the History and Sociology Department at Spelman College; and the Rec. Bloy is Executive Director of the Church Society for College Work...
Today, in Vietnam, we are already in World War III. Why all these wars, all this killing and being killed, and the indescribable suffering brought to millions of human beings? And is not the role of the ROTC "to keep the past upon its throne...
...Bolivia, in Indonesia, in Guatemala, on the other? Can one meaningfully call it an offense when demonstrators disrupt the business of the university, the draft board, the supermarket, the flow of traffic, to protest against the far more efficient disruption of the business of life of untold numbers of human beings by the armed forces of law and order...