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Wilson's lecture was the first in a series on humanism sponsored by the American Humanist Association. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the group last June...
...purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." He has deplored the self-devaluation of modern man that springs from his having invented the means of his own extinction. It is no surprise, then, that his eighth novel deals with the nuclear apocalypse, the central humanist preoccupation of the 1980s...
Many of Mumford's reasoned humanist views are by now as familiar as his name. He favors planning, gardens, cities and, best of all, the planned garden cities of late 19th century England. (He put his mortgage where his mouth was, living from 1924 to 1935 in the carefully structured community of Sunnyside, just across the East River from Manhattan.) Mumford dislikes automobiles, real estate developers, skyscrapers ("towering urbanoid anthills") and, to the distress of less punctilious planners, the untidy vitality of immigrant neighborhoods. For more than half a century he has railed against the gracelessness and alienating giantism...
...Emersonian vision of the poet as the "head" atop the shoulders of the state's "body," standing apart and philosophizing, essential to society in his very aloofness from its obvious daily functions. Other formulations are less accessible, less convinced, less convincing--and more frustrating, finally, for the humanist who still struggles to believe that a passion for literature or music can be its own justification...
...criteria used in selecting the Jefferson Lecturer are that he or she be a "distinguished humanist," he able to communicate his or her ideas to a broad public, and he able to relate these ideas to public issues and affairs." Leonard Oliver, an NEH official, said yesterday...