Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For Dame Helen Gardner an updated humanism;
Much of today's criticism tends to "darken understanding and blight enjoyment" of literature, Dame Helen Gardner, Norton Professor of Poetry and professor of English literature emerita at Oxford, said yesterday in the first of the 1979-80 Norton Lectures, titled "Wanted: A New Humanism."
The argument that the real conflict is between religion and humanism is especially true. It's too bad the trend now is to judge by human standards instead of God's. People are prone to set standards for themselves that are too often influenced by greed, dishonesty, selfishness...
Forms of anti-Catholicism undoubtedly persist. The deeper conflict, however, is not between the Catholic Church and other religions, or between Catholics and people of other faiths. It is between religion and humanism, between the idea of a natural moral law and moral relativism. "All of Western law," civilization which...
There is something inherently suspect about institutionalizing something as spontaneous as humor, and something even obscene in making it a sullen competition for yuks, as the Lampoon has done. The resultant brand of humor, inevitably perhaps, irritates--no, it offends. And by this I don't mean to carp on...