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...Vonnegut trademark that has withstood both the ravages of time and countless packs of Pall Malls. By refusing to take much of anything too seriously, the book manages to avoid drowning in its own Vonnegutia or becoming The World According To Kurt (or, even worse, some sort of humanist Dianetics). Popping up all over the book, absurd little litanies such as "something the cat drug in" (what people, especially scientists, like to make each other feel like) or "a dog's breakfast" (Kilgore Trout's expression for the human brain) establish a familiarity that helps the reader adjust...
...Campus Freethought Alliance (CFA), a coalition of atheist and secular humanist student factions under the auspices of the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH), has announced plans to develop 100 new subsidiaries during the 1997-98 academic year...
...right, it's summer. You want a foreign-language film that doesn't play like a final exam in Comparative Cultures. So try Shall We Dance?, which Miramax Films has cannily positioned as successor to its easygoing humanist hits Like Water for Chocolate and Il Postino. Masayuki Suo's romantic comedy, the winner of 13 Japanese Academy Awards, at times teeters dangerously close to the excesses of another Miramax crowd pleaser, Strictly Ballroom. The film has such a weakness for the easy incongruity (short men dancing with tall women--isn't that hilarious?) that it could almost be Australian...
...wrote that? Sir Thomas More. A knight, a saint, a humanist, a wit, a martyr and a man, famously, for all seasons. And yet a man so besotted by the idea of summer, evidently, that he would foist that season's worst weather off onto winter...
...special, from broad questions to narrow ones). It is that in invites students to think of academic disciplines as separate cultures, each with its own language, customs and values--cultures whose presuppositions can be legitimately criticized only from within. Thus the principal encourages an attitude that the humanist and educator Jacques Barzun in Science: The Glorious Entertainment calls specialism...