Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same), without becoming a stylist is one of the 20th century's dreams. It presupposes a return to the origins of form, to the half-articulate, the instinctive: uncensored desire. Me Tarzan, you Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures...
...Marcus, the Marcus half of Neiman-Marcus and a former Overseer, noted that he has known four presidents of Harvard. Of the three, Lowell was an egoist, Conant a brilliant scientist, and Pusey a great generalist. But Bok, Marcus said, aside from being an accredited legalist, is the only humanist among the four...
...Union member I am grateful for the genuine support we received from The Crimson; however, journalistic support frozen and suspended at the level of ax-grinding becomes profoundly anti-Humanist and methodologically obscurantist as well. The sword cuts both ways, simultaneously on two levels, personal and transpersonal. Support in such a manner, while it tries to get its licks in (and thereby reveals ironically the extent of the reification of consciousness--even of the staff of a supposedly progressive newspaper), also extends and intensifies the forms of reification. Larry Vaughan
...worst thing you can say about Marcel Ophuls is that whatever his politics, artistically he is a bourgeois humanist--mawkish, inconclusive, unclear, visually universalizing the particular. At the same time, his films show the power of that bourgeois humanism to move into an extra-political realm in which each person must ask himself how he would respond in the same situation of political and moral crisis...
...conception of Judas as hero evolves, moreover, with what used to be called a fruitful ambiguity, leaving the reader to ponder the author's real intent. For while Judas begins as a humanist hero and Della Paresi is clearly a villain, it becomes progressively clear just how much Judas, the political revolutionary, and this unscrupulous priest resemble each other. They are both, in fact, unpleasant Ubermen-schen who see themselves as saviors of mankind but scorn all other men and other men's laws. Judas and Della Paresi agree that the meek will never inherit the earth...