Word: humanisme
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...The need for universities is to be inventive in defining the future before it is upon us: to create new fundamental ideas adequate to the times, while fostering and disseminating the old virtues of critical thought in dealing with them. We cannot, in short, think of the School of Education...
It is the language of kindly humanism, of natural generosity, of many intensities, and, above all, of truth.
Eugene Ionesco's "comic drama," which was performed in French last weekend by the Lowell House Theatre Francais under the direction of Eduardo Montoya '65, is an excellent satire. The provincial professor is a caricature of an academic personality, and his "lesson" is a parody of the warmed-over humanism...
Up the Ladder. Though he is qualified as a surgeon, Dr. Appel insists that he is still a G.P. "A general practitioner," he says, "can be a very contented person because he becomes infused with a feeling of devotion and humanism; he and his patients get to know one another...
Hope from the Poets. The sickness Fiedler most fears in society he finds expressed in Burroughs and other hipster writers who are high on "hashish and yoga, heroin and zen" and drugs like mescaline that alter consciousness. "There is a weariness in the West," he writes, "a weariness with humanism...