Word: humanisme
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Sir: The questions on war and peace cannot be solved on the basis of bravery, laziness, superiority, inferiority or intelligence. Humanism, understanding, lawful rights, integrity and justice are more sound bases for peace.
"THE REVOLUTION isn't coming soon," says Dr. Arthur Bauer, Marxist-intellectual-in-exile of Susan Sontag's Duet for Cannibals. If this is so, the role of the alienated cultural vanguard-both necessary and sufficient-must lie in assaulting the ruling culture, in destroying the primacy of bourgeois humanism...
Never has pornography been this skillfully manipulative (or this frustrating), using pure surfaces to arouse "dangerous emotions," and then refusing to purge them. In perhaps overemphasizing Sontag's aesthetics I've neglected to mention how extremely disquieting the film is emotionally, with respect to familiar personal relationships. I'm speaking...
Sir: I read Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh's book The New Centurions [Feb. 15] and was sorry to hear that he was officially admonished by L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis. He should have been given a citation for the compassionate insight he renders into the life of a cop...
It is a great and perilous way they have entered upon, offering in deed and word an authentic Christian humanism as alternative to what they consider a cannibalizing society eating its young and destroying the physical habitat it lives on. The Government better be wary. These are lovely people, real...