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...more contradictions of the system. In seeking new possibilities for the novel, Robbe-Grillet has pointed out "the destitution of the old myths of depth," the notion that the artist's task should be to suggest the "hidden realities," the "hidden unities," etc, between ordinary men and objects. The humanist portrays Man's continual striving to extend himself everywhere, to accomplish everything, and to achieve impossible spiritual communions. Failing (naturally) in these Man suffers, and finally exalts in the tragic beauty of his suffering, the "sublime necessity" of his alienation. Robbe-Grillet attacks tragedy-the bourgeois artist's ultimate weapon...
...Court made the decision after hearing the cases of Guy P. Gillette of Yonkers, N. Y. and Louis A. Negre of Bakersfield, Calif. Gillette is a self-described humanist and Negre is a Roman Catholic who based his opposition to the Indochina war specifically on religious training...
Clavell's intentions are above that order: his story does have real possibilities as a vehicle for communicating the hypnotic attraction of humanist gemiitlichkeit amidst deteriorating world situations. Cross The Seventh Seal with Lost Horizon and you have a good idea of the conception's attractiveness. But it is in his attempt not to play with the material that Clavell manages to kill his situation's bite...
...smoothing out the administrative wrinkles. "You wouldn't characterize him as an efficiency expert," one colleague said. "He fits the mold of the dean as a teacher rather than the dean as a manager, or a fund-raiser, or administrative wizard. He's basically an educational philosopher and a humanist...
Being a lawyer, Taylor is concerned with precedent. Being a humanist, he took seriously Justice Robert Jackson's famous Nuremberg remark that the example of a restraining law then applied to the Nazis would serve no useful purpose if it was not used to condemn aggression "by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment." Since alleged U.S. aggression in Viet Nam has lately been cited against the U.S. under the Nuremberg precedent by American soldiers refusing to fight, Tay lor set out to re-examine the war-crime concept with a view to fixing...