Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the doorpost. But The Fool and Zampano have an old rivalry that will not die. Gelsomina blindly loves Zampano. However, she also loves The Fool. How this triangle finally resolves itself and what happens to Gelsomina afterwards is a tragic love story. It is also a spiritual and humanist allegory about loneliness, faith and kindness...
...variety of people saying the different things they knew about Noah's ark." That excuse will hardly mollify discriminating TV viewers. And it will not defuse the anger of archaeologists like Richard Fox, of the University of South Dakota. Writing in the current edition of Free Inquiry, a secular humanist publication, Fox charges, "The program abused my profession and insulted its practitioners. And CBS is responsible...
...America and the West, without trying to discover that America is a very contradictory, various place." Were ever two cultures so far apart, so blinded by their own distorted images of each other? But what better subject could there be, in this insanely fractured time, for an authentic humanist like Said...
Kennedy spends his life treading the uncertain margins that lie between second-generation immigrant and Harvard student, between Catholic and humanist, between Perspective and Lampoon, between himself and his "second conscience," always "keeping tabs...
Could I, as a Black man, discount everything Thomas Jefferson ever accomplished because he owned slaves? Of course not. That type of blanket dismissal would prevent me from appreciating one of the greatest figures in history. It is no more accurate to call Powell a propagator of "anti-humanist rhetoric" than it is to call Jefferson nothing more than a famous slaveowner...