Word: humanistic
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Thompson also said that Gutmann was likely to exercise her bully pulpit, focusing on issues of egalitarianism in education. She’d add the voice of a humanist to a dialogue dominated by economics, he added, alluding to the professions of Yale and Harvard’s presidents...
...feel that some of the deepest crises that we face as a human community have to do with humanist investigations,” she said, adding that she saw a dearth of research in the humanities. “The need for research in the humanities is as deeply urgent as the need for scientific research...
...feel that some of the deepest crises that we face as a human community have to do with humanist investigations,” she said, adding that she saw a dearth of research in the humanities. “The need for research in the humanities is as deeply urgent as the need for scientific research...
...Arts from Jan. 31-April 18. Botticelli, from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola (Oct. 1-Feb. 22) assembles 20 Botticelli paintings and six drawings, plus a dozen works by contemporaries like Filippo Lippi and Piero di Cosimo, all working during the late 15th century, when Florence blossomed in the humanist atmosphere of the Medici court before being swallowed up by the fire-and-brimstone fervor of the Dominican monk Savonarola. Along with several of Botticelli's delicate Madonnas, the show's highlights include a colored-ink Map of the Inferno illustration for Dante's The Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine...
...cherish Peck is to admit nostalgia for an era when popular and political culture could champion humanist ideals without smirking. If our time were not so facetious, so often corrupt, that time--and this man--would not seem so precious...