Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forster is dead. I miss him and I should not. He died last year, a ninety-year-old man with a ninety-year-old vision--a product of English liberal humanism who believed in the old virtues. Individualism, tolerance, tradition, the Human Spirit, an aristocracy of the good, the Christian...
He was a liberal humanist, and for that we can forgive him. And he was an ironist, for that we can thank him. The publication of Maurice is his last act of ironic humanism.
Such is bourgeois humanism: exasperatingly scrupulous, often soft-minded, infuriating, but it is where we come from.
In living out the all-consuming struggle of good and evil that Dick posed in his writing, we were never the equals of our emotional commitments. No action seemed to resonate at the clear passionate note of the call to arms. The will of commitment never seemed able to discover...
It was a moment when pop culture, nourished by everything from hard rock to Prufrock, stood on a tiptoe of expectation. Could the eclectic age -borrowing everywhere from the Bible to Porgy and Bess, from Beethoven to the world of Hair, from the symbolic body and blood of Christ to...