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...Dreiser was far less a theorist than a humanist; essentially his novel is not a social thesis but the timeless story of family life. Of Solon's five children, one is set apart by her homeliness; one is a born Pharisee; one is a self-conscious beauty; one is an artist; one is a natural cavalier. Dreiser is interested mainly in the two latter, the arch-rebels. Against them Solon Barnes finds sternness and tolerance equally ineffective. His son and daughter, in the struggle to come to life as autonomous human beings, become thieves, and worse. The soberly beautiful...
...with ambiguous care: "I call this book The Human Life of Jesus not because I don't believe in him, but because I do." But readers will soon see that Professor Erskine is not a Christian, in the strict and simple sense of the word -he is a humanist...
...that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world security system. ¶ At the Vatican: Catholic Humanist Jacques Maritain, who has recently advocated the formation of a strong, conservative party in France to offset French Communism...
...picked up from Denmark's Nazi-controlled Kalundborg radio). On April 30 death had come to 82-year-old Jens Otto Harry Jespersen after an operation in Roskilde's hospital. In this handsome Danish giant of scholarship, English grammar lost its greatest living historian, Europe an outstanding humanist...
...concerned from first to last with the problem of working out values by which modern men can live. One certainty about U.S. universities is that, despite their present absorption with wartime training schemes, they cannot evade the ultimate problem of "value." In the light of that long-term prospect, Humanist Mumford, now 46, goes to Stanford with determined ideas of what has to be done...