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Died. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 70, Russian poet-novelist, an apolitical Christian humanist whose 1958 Nobel Prize made him an unwitting cold war cause célèbre; of cancer: in Peredelkino, Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Saviors of God, by Nikos Kazantzakis. This early book of aphorisms shows the intense spiritual longing of modern Greece's most noted writer; for Humanist Kazantzakis, God was, essentially, the search...
Scientific Humanist. Something of T. H. Huxley's prodigious reputation-Darwin himself confessed that his own intelligence was "infantile" beside Huxley's-comes through in Biographer Cyril Bibby's book. He is abetted in forewords by Huxley's two greatly talented grandsons : Sir Julian and Aldous Huxley. Ironically. Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics. Without much help from pedestrian Author Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers...
Said one of his fans last week: "Guardini is like a Renaissance humanist-he seems to have the key to everything. If he speaks about atomic science, one feels he knows all there is to know about modern physics. He can plumb the depths of Freud or analyze the mysticism of Paul Klee's paintings; he can throw new light on the obscure poetry of Hölderlin and Rilke, or expound the strengths and weaknesses of Communist dialectic. Guardini seems to control the bridges that lead from art, from literature, from philosophy -to religion...
...native grounds again, House dining halls are the final place for undergraduates to meet their betters. The College knows this, and so makes it easy for great men and little men to eat there. Yet the Innocent finds it farcical: on one hand, the great humanist waddles down to feed his face at a staff dinner once a year; on the other, the famous writer-professor who comes to the dining hall and surmounts all to say "may I join you?" to two students, sits down, and finds himself at an empty table looking at their departing backs...