Word: humanisme
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Gilmore is an expert on the Renaissance and the Reformation, and has published two books, one on political thought in the sixteenth century, and the other on "The World of Humanism." He is also interested in the process of writing history, and the relationship between the historian and his environment...
A Hit, a Flop. Three Little Pigs (1933) and The Country Cousin (1936), a technical masterpiece in the new Technicolor, proved that Disney was ready at last for the task he had set himself: to make a full-length cartoon feature. It had long been his heart's desire...
No summary can suggest Toynbee's range. But his study of renaissances, those recurring attempts of civilizations to recapture their lost youth, is a good example. Charlemagne tried to snatch back features of Hellenism, and Timur Lenk tried to raise the ghost of the Cairene 'Abbasid Caliphate, neither...
Andrew T. Cole, Jr. '54 will receive the Bowdoin (Classics) prize of $100 for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage from Cedric H. Whitman's "Sophocles, A Study of Herolic Humanism." Kenneth J. Reckford '54 will get an Honorable Mention.
An author of two books, Whitman is now working on a study of Homer. He published a volume of his own poems, "Orpheus and the Moon Craters," in 1941, and is the author of "Sophocles: A Study of Heroic Humanism."