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...what he is driving at is knowledge of what he was driven by. When Critic Barnard is not busy unraveling the poet's knottier lines, he sees Robinson pretty much the way Robinson eventually saw himself: as an "idealist" in philosophy, a traditionalist in verse form, a liberal humanist in spirit...
Your Dec. 3 issue has an article on Charles Francis Potter, humanist. After a singular career of not being able to make up his own mind, he wishes to win people to his latest way of thinking . . . Surely Mr. Potter must know from his study of the Bible that even St. Peter, whom God chose as His vicar...
...live in [a non-humanist] epoch, and we have the abstract artists we deserve. Like an emetic, they have purged us of a great deal of silly 19th Century sentiment; like a professor of anatomy, they have revealed the permanent, the timeless bones beneath the perishable flesh. Yet the perishable flesh, in all its ephemeral weakness, will assert itself again. The body can be purified by an emetic, but it can't be nourished...
...author, humanist philosopher, and teacher, Lamont was formerly the chairman of the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship, which is on the Attorney General's list of "subversive" organizations. In 1944 he lectured at the Social Studies Workshop on Soviet Russia, which was held under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education...
...Conduct of Life, by Lewis Mumford. Humanist Mumford weighs modern life, finds it wanting, and prescribes individual rules "for regeneration; Vol. IV of a tetralogy which began with Technics and Civilization (TIME...