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...liberal humanist, and for that we can forgive him. And he was an ironist, for that we can thank him. The publication of Maurice is his last act of ironic humanism...
...Forster wrote an essay on George Orwell who was in large measure his humanist heir. The description serves for both...
This combination of abstract erudition, cosmic imagery and exquisitely detailed observation is at the core of Dürer's originality; and it was not lost on the Venetians. "I wish you were here in Venice!" Dürer wrote to his best friend, the Humanist Willibald Pirckheimer, in 1506. "There are so many nice fellows among the Italians who seek my company more and more every day?wise scholars, good lute-players, pipers, connoisseurs of painting . . . On the other hand there are also some of the most false, lying, thievish rascals, the like of which I could not have believed lived...
Throughout his career as Defense Secretary, McNamara the technician seemed to be at war with McNamara the humanist. The man of supreme self-confidence was more of a Hamlet than anyone knew-torn between technocratic and humanistic impulses and afraid to go too far either way. If he had swung in one direction, would he have been more successful? Even McNamara could not answer that one. Probably no humanist could have brought the Pentagon under control, and no technocrat could conduct the Viet...
...Life (shot off TV via video tape and transferred to film), represents the Nixon-Paramount form of exploitation within Available Light. Speaking to the point of images questioned, Anthony Quian (Gauguin!) answers Kirk Douglas (Van Gogh), "I paint it flat, 'cause I see it that way," the Hollywood realist-humanist rationale for manipulation. For the more conscious elements of image-makers, the rationale is of course more problematic. "I don't know how to see you," Tom says to Amy, manipulating...