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...second and third novels in Snow's panoramic cycle (eight volumes to date) of British life from World War I to the present. There are no "new men" in these two books, and none of those reflections on the rift between the "two cultures," scientific and humanist, that have recently catapulted Snow into the role of a space-age sage. But the hero and narrator is, as always, Lewis Eliot-a wily courtier of success, in law, college, and government administration, and a kind of modern Polonius...
...book's most remarkable passages, Murry defines what Jesus is to him. The writing is hortatory, eloquent, exalted, and yet to anyone who sees in Jesus not man but the Living God, the passage must sound uncomfortably like the kind of sentimentalities spouted by the humanist Devil in Shaw's Man and Superman. Jesus, writes Murry, "is the spirit of liberated Man: Man's Love, man's Imagination; his passion for friendship; his unconquerable desire to trust; his inward knowledge that without trust there is no joy; no happiness; his everlasting longing to make...
...chase proves that Author Ustinov has not yet mastered the art of creating suspense, but it does give him a chance to do what he does best : hold up national types to clever, cynical scrutiny. His police colonel is cast as a stock Italian official, part scoundrel, part ingratiating humanist, both parts cemented by Machiavellian guile. The head of the German escape ring could be found in Central Casting along with all the lesser characters...
...command must not be followed if thereby a crime or offense might be committed." Last year the Bundeswehr's top officer, General Adolf Heusinger (whose title, with the characteristic euphemism of the new German army, is Inspector General rather than Chief of Staff), publicly praised the "Christian-humanist sense of responsibility" of the officers who joined the wartime 1944 anti-Hitler plot and said: "Their spirit and their attitude are our models." As every German soldier knows, Heusinger was a general staff officer briefing Hitler when the conspirators' bomb exploded in 1944, was wounded by the explosion...
...Saviors of God, by Nikos Kazantzakis. This book of aphorisms shows the intense spiritual longing of modern Greece's most noted writer; for Humanist Kazantzakis, God was, essentially, the search...