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Died. Robert Maclver, 88, sociologist and author, onetime president (1956-61) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; in Manhattan. Maclver rose to fame in the 1920s as a humanist in an age of behaviorists. In his numerous books analyzing U.S. democracy (The Ramparts We Guard, Leviathan and the People, Power Transformed), he insisted that in sociology the search for meaning should be paramount...
...elaborate Neo-classic facade, the medallions of Michelangelo, Rafael, and Velasquez, show that the bourgeoisie needed very much to think that it was fulfilling the old humanist roles. They were unable to see how silly it was to build inhuman beehives at one end of the City at the same time that they were copying French palaces at the other end. Seen together, the Met and the skyscrapers show the perversely contorted development of the American city...
...Humanist psychologist, formerly president of the American Psychological Association, who died last week (see MILESTONES...
Olpf Palme (Kenyon '48), L.H.D., the Prime Minister of Sweden. Educator, humanist, Prime Minister and peace weaver between men and between nations (see THE NATION...
...hope, quoting the German theologian Jiirgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope. If the present looks grim, well, maybe−just maybe−there's the future. He settles for the progressive slogan, "Say no to the given and yes to the new." He gambles, as a humanist, that if runaway technology can be slowed down, it will somehow come out evolution rather than revolution...