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For all his interest in teaching, Gilmore is also a quiet and persistent scholar. His particular bent is the relation of Humanism to Renaissance political and social thought. Currently he is preparing a study on "Freedom and Determinism in Renaissance Historians." Because his work has dealt mostly with intellectual history...
Today's educational program is chiefly concerned, he contends, not with a student's education but with his "adjustment." "Intellectual adjustment begins as required courses for freshmen," Jones explains, where "instructors are hand-picked and, being selected, brood conscientiously over Great Books, The Development of Western Man, Humanism, and other...
Take the doctrines of Confucianism, add a mattering of materialistic ideas derived from the West, and you'll have something of the "Chinese Humanism" that Associate Professor Ware presents in his "Chinese 10." Besides featuring an interesting subject and an impressively exotic name, this course, which meets in Boylston 22...
In Italy this refreshed, humanized vision was carried one step further by Giotto, who incorporated into Western art the nobility of classic models. But in the East, with the growing threat of invasion looming over Constantinople, Byzantine art recoiled into familiar formalism. The murals of Kariye Camii stand revealed as...
"She's a bonny woman," said a mill girl as the red and black Rolls-Royce with the royal standard fluttering above its radiator crept through a Lancashire cotton town one sunny day last week. From the car window Queen Elizabeth II smiled at her loyal Lancastrians and waved...