Word: humanists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following remarks are not intended to imply that the complex of issues referred to for convenience as "Esperanto" is of more importance for Harvard humanists than such things as conservation, or a woman's right to choose. I do maintain, however, that the attempt to develop and establish a universal second language is more than casually interrelated with humanism, that the selection and use of such a language remains an item of unfinished business for humanists at large, and that the issue is particularly relevant to humanist students at Harvard...
unusual paintings by well-known artists, or superb "mainstream" humanist works, like Giovanni Cariani's Portrait of Giovan Antonio Caravaggi, by artists less familiar to the general viewer. It digs up paintings from unexpected sources. Who would have imagined that Tintoretto's The Washing of Feet, a masterpiece of large-scale spontaneity, would appear from a church in, of all places, England's New-castle-upon-Tyne, where it was long assumed to be a copy? Best of all, one sees the art in depth and in context: a full room of Lotto, another of Bassano...
...Jack Kemp (R.N.Y.)--becomes the political pawn of Gerard V. Oxboggle, president of Glominoid Corporation. And as a conservative representative. Forehead is the tool of every right-wing cause, from maniacal weapons manufacturers to preachy Southern Senator Clancy Fumes (a.k.a. Jesse Helms). Fumes lives in righteous fear of "secular humanist liberals" and plots to replace the Supreme Court with a panel of the four TV evangelists with the top Neilsen ratings...
Says Graphic Designer Jan Souza, 34, of Cambridge, Mass.: "He's a humanist hero who fills a need in our technological soci ety." Notes Barbara Shewchuk, 28, a stenographer from Bridgeport, Pa.: "The fact that Doctor Who cares about all life forms shows that you can trust...
...important factor is considering a scientist for the deanship is that the job would mean dealing his career in research, given the breakneck development of scientific discoveries today. For this reason, professor's say, a scientist would probably the more length than a humanist to put aside his academic career for five to 10 years to take on the deanship...