Word: humanisme
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In collaboration with his wife, he published another book, "Commonwealth," and he is the author of "The World of Humanism, 1452-1517."
The breadth of his experience has given Malraux a passionate humanism that contrasts vividly with the dry gripings of most critics. "A man becomes truly Man," he maintains, "only when in quest of what is most exalted in him. . . There is beauty in the thought that this animal who knows...
"If man is to judge himself competently, the standards he applies to his conduct must of necessity be beyond his power to modify or define. If man has the power to define what his standards are, then they almost inevitably become what he wills them to be. Thus through man...
Opponents call Adenauer foxy, and he is cunning. A more important characteristic is his stonewall immovability, once he is convinced. By refusing to budge an inch in argument, the stonewall Chancellor has worn out general after general of the Allied occupation armies, and sometimes as many as two or three...
New courses in Comparative Literature include "Heroic Poetry--the Literary Epic" and "Selected Readings in Humanism."