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...feminist leaders, warned that the participation of lesbians would overshadow other issues, tried to downplay the controversial subject during the marches and rallies. A quiet, often bitter debate followed; the result was a declaration from N.O.W. and tacit agreement by local groups that freedom of sexual orientation was a humanist concern and therefore could not be ignored by Women's Liberation. Nonetheless, lesbianism has been called the lavender herring of Women's Liberation...
...earth's land surface. But Brazil, especially Amazonia, is the last old-fashioned Eldorado left, a trove of unexploited gold, rare woods, precious stones, exotic pelts and untold deposits of minerals. It is also one of the last places where the bloodshot eye of the fatigued humanist can still see in progress the fatal consequences of Eldorado: the destruction of indigenous peoples. Lucien Boclard, a French journalist and author (The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam), takes it all in, from the first Amazon man hunts in the 16th century to the huge inland island of Bananal where today Indian...
...threaten court action. At left WILLIAM KUNSTLER, lawyer for the turkeys (with CHARLES NESSON, ALAN DERSHOWITZ and LEONARD BOUDIN, representing the bunny rabbits in background), declares, "We are in consultation with the reindeer and other oppressed beasts to examine what we can do together to fight this racist, sexist, humanist plan...
...sprang from it, and Hendrick Terbrugghen used it with distinction. But his influence stimulated no great painters in Rome, for, by then, there were none left to stimulate. The grand vindication came later, when Rembrandt took Caravaggio's worn flesh and epiphanies of light and gave them the humanist resonance which Caravaggio himself died too young to attain...
...Always a humanist, McGovern proclaims. "This land of ours, this people of ours must see that we have been taught to view ourselves as competitors, and we have come to see our fellow humans in that spirit....We have lost compassion." But never forgetting the reality of politics, he translates this humanism into broad and practical programs of tax reform...