Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archetypal literary enemy in a most unusual source. In Burgess's view the worst modern vices (materialism, pragmatism, relativism) may be traced to the works and influence of the heretical English monk Pelagius, who denied original sin and, 1,500 years before Marx-or Harold Wilson-taught that human perfection was obtainable by civic means. There is an opposite, more severe, tragic tradition that he identifies with the moral absolutism of Saint Augustine. One or other of these disparate attitudes may be detected by Burgess in almost any important English literary works. Such rigorous philosophical dogma, inherited from...
...radically different from a criminal one and in no way should merit the type of police action taken against it here at Harvard. The malicious clubbing of unarmed demonstrators, to my mind, constitutes criminal negligence on the part of the police and represents an intolerable violation of human rights. Bill Puka, GSAS
What happened was outrageous, but no more so than should have been expected. Letting the demonstrators stay in the hall would have inconvenienced the Administration and offended some sources of financial support, but these would have been a small price for the Harvard authorities to pay compared to the human and political costs of the course they chose...
...know," he said, sitting on a chair next to Nora, "I think I'm a human being when I'm working--a rational human being with the same objectivity, the same responses, the same everything as when I'm not. But then I take a few days off and I realize I was wrong. I realize I wasn't human. I had no idea where...
...repeated: "I'm not human when I'm working. It scares me too. It's not good to lose yourself in these things, there's got to be a pay-off somewhere. If Eleanora turns out to be a stinker, I think I'd go into a corner for a year and a half...