Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspired by Goethe, whom Hutchins called "the world's last truly universal man," a committee of U.S. citizens (honorary chairman: Herbert Hoover) arranged to take over the mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...
Schweitzer and Ortega. Both were optimistic about the status of human standards in the world today; both stood in agreement that man is good, and that, through his own efforts coupled with divine aid, he could better himself and his lot. Ortega welcomed, as normal and healthy, the doubts that now & again besiege humanity. Schweitzer felt that mankind was able, in fact dutybound, to take on fuller responsibilities...
Solid Ground. "Man needs faith," said Ortega, "he needs belief as a soil and a solid ground where he may stretch his limibs and rest." Man is constantly getting lost, he conceded, but being lost is actually a "dramatic privilege" and not an evil. When lost, the man who has faith turns himself into an instrument of orientation "to guide him and to return him to himself ... If man had not been lost, countless times, on land and sea, the points of the compass would never have been developed...
Incalculable Forces. Dr. Schweitzer was equally confident about man's ability to weather his current storms. The great problem of modern times, he said, is "to safeguard the integrity of the individual within the modern state." The great modern conflict: "Personality versus collectivity . . . [They are] fighting everywhere. Collectivism in its various forms has deprived the individual of his individuality...
Hypnotic Suggestion. Nobody could believe that Boston, man-for-man the classiest club in baseball (except for pitching), was as bad as it seemed. The Red Sox sluggers, Ted Williams and Vern Stephens, were leading the league in home runs and runs-batted-in. The whole club was hustling, playing heads-up ball, and yet they were 9½ games behind...