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Nicolette Milnes Walker, 28, is a brisk British girl who describes herself as a humanist and hedonist and claims to make decisions by balancing pleasure against conscience. When these conflict too horrendously she flips a coin for or against; but instead of abiding by the toss she analyzes whether or not she is happy with the result and if not, overthrows the coin's decision. Perhaps following such methods-though she admits wanting to get away from it all and to impress men-Nicolette decided to sail all alone across the Atlantic...
...social history. He is less ashamed than anyone else writing today to lay his taste for intangibles like Beauty on the printed line. He is always ready to use centuries-old peaks of artistic creation as his touchstones. And, given a film's base in developed character and a humanist impulse, he can seem willfully idiosyncratic in the works he actually chooses to admire...
...appreciative and often solictous of their socially productive role. From the point of view of the American reliance on ostnesibly private institutions to resolve social issues, the universities' retreat to a prissy functionalism is simply irresponsibility. Self-limitation of the university's social activity by appeal to the arch-humanist conception of the function of education may reinforce the middle class academics claim to be an "autonomous intellect,." But it flys in the face of the crudest political and budgetary realities, and gives up the battle just at the point at which it whould be joined...
...apologetic grin, but her eyes challenge any rebuttal of this self-analysis, "and I'm strong minded." "She's human as hell," a student tries to explain in the face of her intimidating vitae and potoriously merciless academic standards, but you couldn't mistake her for a soft-heeled humanist; she's really a tough...
...problems of everyman, they become the problems of family, government, education, and all social institutions. The late Walter Gropius, founder and head of the Bauhaus (1919-33)--the famous German design school--put art in such a position: art became intimate with the present, and took up the humanist torch to serve man and society. After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Gropius furthered this ideal as Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard from...