Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your story attacked the frightening state of crime in America with pillows and those never-say-die cliches. Oh, you mentioned those nasty words like deterrence and punishment, but your obvious desire to quickly return to the womb of "humanism" had me laughing through my teeth.
Few historians are likely to take Barzun's objections seriously, except perhaps as a warning that they should be careful no matter what sort of data they employ. Luckily, not all older historians are so full of methodological reaction. Oscar Handlin, not the most liberal man at Harvard, is the...
Two of the six lower-level Humanities courses listed this year deal, respectively, with Portugal and the literature of Spanish-speaking nations. Twenty years ago there were also six lower-level Humanities courses. But rarely if ever was the material covered in each limited to a single nation, culture or...
In the light of the Bicentennial, the eager reception that the French are giving to Franklin and Jefferson is heartwarming for Americans. Whatever an American is, however difficult to define, the national character surely has been shaped by Franklin's broad humanism and Jefferson's clear idealism.
Two Cultures. A decade after his death, the problem of properly dressing Aldous Huxley remains, Sybille Bedford's long, affectionately detailed biography notwithstanding. A man whose 69 years spanned and made the most of a number of literary and intellectual styles, Huxley simply does not fit comfortably into critical readymades...