Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM HUMOR. Man's sense of the comic, says Berger, is fundamentally a sense of discrepancy, and the most basic is the discrepancy between man and the universe. Man's laughter, Berger believes, "reflects the imprisonment of the human spirit in the world"-and his audacious conviction, when that world seems awry, that the imprisonment is not final. "Religion," concludes Berger, "vindicates laughter...
...does not suggest that such a search will find its final expression as a universal religion, and disassociates himself from any attempt to create a "theological Esperanto." He sees, in fact, a continuing pluralism, but a more confident one, in which all religions more fully appreciate the commonality of human experience that unites them and the diversity of approach that mutually enriches them...
...focused acutely on the intricate and polished parquetry of the English Establishment as he proceeded through the corridors of power. In The Sleep of Reason, that same cool eye is cast on more amorphous matters as the author struggles with formulations about such things as free will, responsibility and human nature. Recently C. P. Snow informed the press that the eleventh and final Strangers and Brothers novel will deal with "death, judgment, heaven and hell." If The Sleep of Reason is any indication of Snow's ability to deal with speculative issues in fiction, the next novel will prove...
...There had been questions pounding behind my tongue . . . What did she do? What did they say to each other? What was it like to do it? For me in the jail, for Margaret in our drawing room, those questions boiled up: out of a curiosity which was passionate, insistent, human and at the same time corrupt...
...seekers and archetype spotters will look in vain through Cary's fiction. "My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions," he wrote. Persistently, he saw the world as a struggle between creative man and organized authority, with no quarter given or expected. To tell of human life in terms of anything but spiritual adventure would have seemed to him not far from blasphemy against both life...