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...minister who became a pioneer of nudism in the U.S., serving as the first editor of the movement's magazine (then called the Nudist) and helping to establish one of the country's first nudist camps, at Otis, Mass.; in Philadelphia. Huntington, who declared himself an agnostic humanist when he resigned his ministry in 1938, maintained that nudism affirmed "the goodness of man and the possible satisfactoriness of life...
...versatility is indisputable. He is a novelist, playwright, composer and linguist, as well as a critic whose dissenting views on modern culture have frequently boiled over into newspapers and magazines. But Burgess, 63, is no club Tory grumbling behind his Times and Spectator. He is a rugged, independent Christian humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning out novels that entertain...
...executive producer, is convinced that the amiable Kuralt, 46, who won millions of fans over the past 13 years for his evening news "On the Road" travels, will push them still higher. He says, "If anyone can raise the ratings, Charlie can. He's an extraordinary intellect, a humanist of tremendous dedication, and he has more integrity and compassion than anyone else I know. Put together, that spells mother." (Or whew...
...even an extraordinary intellect, dedicated humanist and man of compassion like Mother Charlie cannot erase Morning's greatest handicap: it is only half a competitor. The show runs opposite its two rivals from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. After that it gives way-extremely reluctantly, it should be added-to Captain Kangaroo, which has been entertaining preschool children for a quarter-century. Quips Kuralt: "If only we could resolve the serious artistic question of what to do with Captain Kangaroo...
...this book has a disappointing aspect, it is the rather scanty treatment of Martin Buber, the towering religious humanist or humanistic religious. Somewhere in Buber, it would seem, lurks the kernel of the new understanding of self, and the relationship of man to Almighty. We are not powerless, victimized by an existential fate, doomed to fraudulent, terrorized lives. We can (not shall) overcome...