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...social survey Heaven: A History, Colleen McDannell and Bernard Lang observe that over two millenniums human conceptions of heaven tended to alternate between God-centered visions and more humanist arrangements focused primarily on the reunion and interactions of the sainted dead. Medieval heaven, approached intellectually by the Scholastics or passionately by the mystical school of love, expanded St. Augustine's idea of the Beatific Vision, the saints' rapturous and direct communion with God. The Renaissance Catholic heaven more resembled an ongoing human-to-human celebration presided over by the Virgin Mary. But Protestant reformers of the 1500s reinstated a vision...
...that made mortals suddenly see the beauty and empowering potential of a desktop machine. It gave new meaning to the word mouse; ordinary people could now make computers do extraordinary stuff, such as quack like a duck. Later, Capps, leading the Newton development team, tried to bring that same humanist spirit to the handheld market. The Newton was the world's first "personal digital assistant" and was supposed to rejuvenate the flagging company. But if the Mac quacked, the Newton gobbled like a turkey. Critics decried its buggy handwriting-recognition system and boutique price. It was dismissed as Doonesbury fodder...
...delirious innovation (the hallucinogenic Trainspotting got only a screenplay nod). The primary appeal of their stories is not to the young mass audience, which prefers spectacular fantasy and broad comedy, but to older viewers, more sophisticated and more sentimental, liberal in their politics and conservative in their desire for humanist affirmation--folks very like the typical Oscar voter. This audience wants, as Fine Line president Ruth Vitale puts it, "movies that touch your heart, that make you pause, think, maybe pick up the phone and call your...
During a question-and-answer session, Seale rejected the label "black radical" and declared, "I'm an African-American revolutionary humanist...
Even though the elder Farmer said many of the members are "young, well-educated people," the church preaches a decidedly anti-intellectual and anti-humanist doctrine...