Word: humanistic
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...1920s the Scopes trial enacted the collision between the moral universe of older, agricultural America, where the Bible held authority, and the new urban, secular-humanist nation wherein H.L. Mencken was God. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial stirred up all of America's agitations about immigration, anarchy and the Red Menace...
...herd sheep himself. The dogs think he's too nice a guy for that line of work. But the sheep, tired of being nipped and woofed at, take a shine to him because Babe speaks politely to them and treats them with respect. He's sort of a liberal humanist on trotters, capable even of the odd, soulful thought about mortality, and a welcome addition to a public life largely given over these days to swinishness of a less exemplary kind...
...bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable -- all in all, saysTIME's Richard Schickel, Babe is "probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago." Of course, he's a piglet, but still, he's a liberal humanist on trotters, capable of the occasional odd, soulful thoughts on mortality, and a welcome addition to a public life largely given over these days to swinishness of a less exemplary kind. Director Chris Noonan's fable shines with the classic virtue of the form--surface simplicity, seductive imagery and gently instructive...
Gandhi and Humanism. Mark Lindley,assistant humanist chaplain, United Ministry.Science Center D, 1 p.m.1 May Monday
...Radcliffe sends a pamphlet on religious life at Harvard to all incoming first-years. The Ministry encourages students to explore some of the 36 groups that it currently recognizes. Among them are a multiplicity of Christian organizations, Hillel for Jewish worship, the Baha'i Association, the Buddhist Community, a Humanist Chaplaincy, the religious Society of Friends, as well as Hindu and Zoroastrian associations...