Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly miss the New England countryside. But as an experience, as a way to pass four years. Harvard is over-estimated. It is no doubt the greatest university in the world in many respects, and certainly extraordinarily efficient at grinding out hard-working professionals. But at a basic human level Harvard is sadly devoid of charm or style. Students there are mostly uptight, immature and inarticulate...
...confusion about art and what to do with it. For the artist his work is an approach to reality that is both different from, and entirely independent of other ways of knowing; science, language and so on. He believes, in the words of Ruskin, "that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion...
...band shouted, "Hey, Craig--as an outsider, what do you think of the human race?" The fans exploded. And you knew the spirit of Watson's Section 18 lived on, even with all the heat and lights...
...five panelists--religious, political, and community leaders--disagreed on the solution to racial violence. Sadiki Kambon, a representative of the Community for Human Rights in Roxbury, said he agreed with Wade that for self-protection blacks need the right to carry arms...
...crowd. The politician and the performer equally require public attention and feed on popular adulation. As either politics or statesmanship, government has always relied on a heaping measure of theatricality. Royal pageantry evolved not entirely to oil the vanity of the overlords but also to satisfy the human craving for symbolic ceremonials. The politician's own requirements in a democracy carried things a step further. To win a constituency, the politician must first gather a crowd and turn it into an audience. Enter show biz. In the old days the string band on the courthouse square became as indispensable...