Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If as a futuristic vision it is conservative, as a satire Zardoz is radical. In its contempt for scientific progress unalloyed by humanism, in its parody of man's attraction to death over life, in its mockery of religious faith, "the good life," and beauty and truth alike, Zardoz digs...
The anomalous nature of the non-merger merger is hallmarked by a freshman's puzzled search for the college she was admitted to. For the 50 to 60 percent of undergraduate women who live in or are affiliated with Harvard Houses and dorms, Radcliffe vanishes with the completion of the...
FRANCE. Like their West German cousins, France's young Marxists have decided that they were "too ideological, intellectual and elitist" back in 1968. The French far left-ten main groups, with a total membership of no more than 30,000-is much smaller than the German movement. But it...
The Self. Like some pharaoh taking his goods with him into the winding darkness below the sand, Picasso in dying has removed an idea of artistic activity from the West-an idea of which he was the last great exponent. It has to do with a passionate omnivorousness, a scale...
To humanists and others who believe that both man and society are perfectible, Lévi-Strauss extends small comfort. "Humanism has failed," he believes. "It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all...