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...soon people on the left began to think there was a system, and that the politics of humanist outrage, however estheticalily attractive, was helpless against this system. The explosion of the Northern Ghettoes was a shock to students who had risked their lives by working in the South. Apparently you could risk your life much closer to home if you wanted to. And by 1965, when SDS began to be an important part of the Movement, students had to explain the War. More than anything else the War made radicals not only because it brought the ssytem close...
...attitude as described by a Kingsley Amis character: "If there was one thing which Roger never felt like, it was a good read." Have science and the new near disciplines like sociology-not to mention the sheer accumulation of modern knowledge that he cannot hope to assimilate-made the humanist man of letters obsolete, permanently inferior as "the last amateur in a world of professionals...
...development the capitalism's contradictons have forced upon the romantic roots of bourgeois culture; one of them discusses the horror men inspire in one another and in particular the horror of touching human flesh, explaining thereby love-making as an attraction through hatred. But basically they are as anti-humanist at the citizens they terrorize, and their contempt for other men leads them both into bad romantic politics ("to overcome the horror of the bourgeisie, we need more horror") and immoral actions (cannibalism...
With good reason: Erasmus* has survived those centuries well. As a humanist of international eminence and a lifelong apostle of Christian renewal, he put a special mark both on the Renaissance and on the Reformation that followed it. More important, many of his ideas about reform and the Christian life seem remarkably relevant today, and the best scholarship on Erasmus has been the work of 20th century historians. The most recent example is Erasmus of Christendom (Scribners, $6.95), an affectionate appreciation by Yale Reformation Historian Roland H. Bainton, best known for his biography of Martin Luther, Here I Stand...
...Procession [March 21]: I have read the piece in the original Russian and you have omitted the final three paragraphs. Omission of these lines for whatever reason deprives the reader of the point of the article and makes Solzhenitsyn appear to be merely a journalist rather than the visionary humanist that...