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...modern society keeps its humanity when its every move is known. For the most part, the irony of Tolm's character is well realized: privately, he is a decent, doddering family man; publicly, he is an inflammatory symbol in an ideological passion play. But as an ambivalent humanist figurehead for Big Business, he earns little sympathy or credence. It is never clear whether Tolm adequately understands a world where there can be Russian caviar and Cuban cigars on Wall Street and Monopoly sets in the Kremlin...
...just another humanist crying out against the inroads of technology. He knows science well enough to be playful about it. He understands that the weakest link in any theory may be the theoretician. His message is not glum but comic: if a perfect machine ever arose, miraculously, from its imperfect builder, no one would trust...
...been at great cost to others elsewhere. There is no sight sorrier than a doctrinaire American leftist, bellowing bellicosities, handing out leaflets, lifting high the red flag of revolution, and getting nothing but scowls. We need a much more flexible value to instill, some sort of humanist concern that will allow us eventually to see the shortcomings of our own nation and to identify with the oppressed in the rest of the world...
Christianity--by an enormous margin--outnumbers all other U.S. religious groups. Discussing the uses of American religion for social change, therefore, is almost synonymous with discussing the uses of Protestantism and Catholicism. Jews are the most active and humanist group in this country; diehard atheists, too, have a pretty good record of social concern. It is among devoted and casual Christians-especially Protestants-that there are the vast numbers who could form new majorities, new sentiments. At least for the moment, though the bulk of organized American Christianity supports the very worst political tendencies, confusing, making synonymous, the identities...
...while the presidents of Duke and Notre Dame are quoted on the book's jacket. Derek Bok's opinion is conspicuous in its absence. Bok's recent writings will be published this spring. Although Bok--in his open letters, annual reports and Commencement addresses--does not show the same humanist facility for language as Giamatti, his legal training would help him illuminate Giamatti's many generalizations which lack supporting evidence...