Word: humanisme
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Henry started his reign in 1509 as a handsome, strapping 17-year-old, seemingly the perfect embodiment of the chivalric tradition. A superb sportsman and a gifted musician, he also could hold his own intellectually in company with those lights of Renaissance humanism, Erasmus and Thomas More. Yet he grew...
Cinematic disappointments have not seemed to impede Truffaut's aplomb. If anything, he has grown more secure and relaxed. Though he is still a chain-smoker, he abandoned nail biting when one of his daughters took it up. In a field where jealousies unreel at every screening, he remains...
The best of these poems are searingly democratic and deeply committed to some new form of humanism that has yet to reveal a clear pattern in the wreckage of the old. The worn coin of alienation is still legal tender, though it appears to be passing into more active hands...
The resurgent religion is not Christianity then, but a perverse humanism. The affluent young couples of Tarbox, Mass. find the comforts that religion used to provide--the alleviation of one's fear of death, the sense of community, the transfiguration of the world--not in the Church, but in their...
Nonetheless, as examples of early work by these abstract expressionists and the pop artists on display at the Modern suggest, more was assimilated from the surrealists and Dadaists than mere assemblage and drip. Common to all of the work in the exhibit is a poetry and passion, gaiety and humanism...