Word: humanistic
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...house has a soul—I hope,” Berenson once wrote.When Berenson died in October of 1959, at the age of 94, he bequeathed his estate, along with his library and art collection, to Harvard in the hopes that I Tatti would become a center of humanistic learning where younger scholars could come conduct research and encounter new ideas. And since it was first given to Harvard in 1959, Berenson’s Villa has become just that—an institutionalized arcadia that offers a small community of scholars the opportunity to nourish themselves with...
While the bus ads are confrontational just by the nature of their placement, atheist advertising is not new. In 2007, the American Humanist Association, a Washington-based group of roughly 11,000 members that questions the existence of one God, any god, the supernatural or an afterlife, bought ads in publications like the Nation and the Progressive. Then, late last year, the group splashed its first bus ads in the U.S., buying space in Washington, D.C., with the line, "Why believe in God? Just be good for goodness sakes." It caused a flurry of complaints from believers but was somewhat...
...food, from going to services at Harvard’s Episcopal Chaplaincy to attending a day of interfaith discussion and dialogue hosted by the university chaplains in the fall. And that was exciting! After a fast-breaking for Ramadan, there were performances by Jewish and Christian musical groups, a humanist singing a song about the evolution of empathy, and a keynote address by Sally Quinn. The tent outside the Science Center was full of people hungry for discussion and for the free catered dinner. Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left...
...public commission. I was lucky to get that chance during his last few months, when we teamed up in a competition to design a new museum of African-American history and culture. The more I got to know him, the more my admiration and love for this architect, humanist and wonderful counselor increased. Max left an incredible legacy that will continue to inspire our profession and open opportunities for future generations...
...samurai tradition of seppuku, or ritual suicide, can Okura see a future in his shattered country. Dearest to Alisjahbana's heart, of course, is Indonesia's independence, declared in the language he codified. But his depiction of Okura - as a metaphor for Japan's rebirth in a new, humanist world - is evidence of a magnanimous and rare sensibility among Asian writers of the wartime generation...