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...Here, intimacy, in the humanist sense, develops,"says Teacher Ron Wood. And inevitably, with intimacy comes romance, and sometimes marriage. Newlyweds can stay on in the singles' paradise until they find an apartment of their own somewhere in the outside world. Then they pack up and leave, abandoning their pads to the eager singles at the top of the waiting list...
...humanist must be involved in studies that are "really relevant to where the action is," Schorske holds, and research cannot be separated from teaching. "If I lecture on social democracy," he explains, "well, that's a subject I have finished with. I've written my book. It's out of my system. But if I lecture on 20th century culture, my work now; I really cook with gas?this is what I am still involved with intellectually...
...atheist, not an agnostic, humanist, or anything else," Mrs. Murray said, "But no one will deny that those who are exempted from paying taxes on church-held properties are causing my taxes to rise. Such tax exemptions constitute direct state aid to and are a violation of the first ammendment...
...that his movement, and others of the radical left, do not have a full answer to that question. But he suggests that students begin by witholding their intellectual skills from those parts of society which they feel to be wrong -- and by "wrong" Oglesby means a betrayal of American humanist ideals. One eventual goal of a radical student movement, he suggests, would be education and research: to discover alternative ways to organize society and use power, to uncover dangerous myths, and to educate men's perception of what is going...
Robert Goheen, 46, Princeton. A scholarly humanist who stakes out his positions carefully, he is a close friend of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, argues that "a university president is not a political eunuch." A past chairman of the American Council on Education, he is a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Princeton's influential Educational Testing Service. He jumped spectacularly from professor to the presidency...