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...following remarks are not intended to imply that the complex of issues referred to for convenience as "Esperanto" is of more importance for Harvard humanists than such things as conservation, or a woman's right to choose. I do maintain, however, that the attempt to develop and establish a universal second language is more than casually interrelated with humanism, that the selection and use of such a language remains an item of unfinished business for humanists at large, and that the issue is particularly relevant to humanist students at Harvard...
Having responded to several criticisms and attempted to identify international language as a humanist ideal. I will now turn to the specific here-and-now issue of what the new humanist group at Harvard might do in relation to this. The specificity owes to the fact that there is something worthwhile that students can succeed in doing, but that unaffiliated adults--even alumni--cannot. Following a through exploration of the area, perhaps by committee and or in conjunction with the Esperanto seminar beginning in February, they can campaign for the acceptance of Esperanto as a legitimate means of satisfying...
unusual paintings by well-known artists, or superb "mainstream" humanist works, like Giovanni Cariani's Portrait of Giovan Antonio Caravaggi, by artists less familiar to the general viewer. It digs up paintings from unexpected sources. Who would have imagined that Tintoretto's The Washing of Feet, a masterpiece of large-scale spontaneity, would appear from a church in, of all places, England's New-castle-upon-Tyne, where it was long assumed to be a copy? Best of all, one sees the art in depth and in context: a full room of Lotto, another of Bassano...
...Jack Kemp (R.N.Y.)--becomes the political pawn of Gerard V. Oxboggle, president of Glominoid Corporation. And as a conservative representative. Forehead is the tool of every right-wing cause, from maniacal weapons manufacturers to preachy Southern Senator Clancy Fumes (a.k.a. Jesse Helms). Fumes lives in righteous fear of "secular humanist liberals" and plots to replace the Supreme Court with a panel of the four TV evangelists with the top Neilsen ratings...
Says Graphic Designer Jan Souza, 34, of Cambridge, Mass.: "He's a humanist hero who fills a need in our technological soci ety." Notes Barbara Shewchuk, 28, a stenographer from Bridgeport, Pa.: "The fact that Doctor Who cares about all life forms shows that you can trust...