Word: humanist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humanist must be involved in studies that are "really relevant to where the action is," Schorske holds, and research cannot be separated from teaching. "If I lecture on social democracy," he explains, "well, that's a subject I have finished with. I've written my book. It's out of my system. But if I lecture on 20th century culture, my work now; I really cook with gas?this is what I am still involved with intellectually...
...atheist, not an agnostic, humanist, or anything else," Mrs. Murray said, "But no one will deny that those who are exempted from paying taxes on church-held properties are causing my taxes to rise. Such tax exemptions constitute direct state aid to and are a violation of the first ammendment...
...that his movement, and others of the radical left, do not have a full answer to that question. But he suggests that students begin by witholding their intellectual skills from those parts of society which they feel to be wrong -- and by "wrong" Oglesby means a betrayal of American humanist ideals. One eventual goal of a radical student movement, he suggests, would be education and research: to discover alternative ways to organize society and use power, to uncover dangerous myths, and to educate men's perception of what is going...
Robert Goheen, 46, Princeton. A scholarly humanist who stakes out his positions carefully, he is a close friend of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, argues that "a university president is not a political eunuch." A past chairman of the American Council on Education, he is a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Princeton's influential Educational Testing Service. He jumped spectacularly from professor to the presidency...
...concluded his 40-minute speech with a call for a "humanist revolution" to overthrow the corporate system...