Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title essay and that on "The Critic and American Life" bear a marked similarity. Professor Babbitt tells the present age that it is denying standards, repudiating, as did the earliest romanticists, the Christian and humanist traditions. Untraditional as we believe ourselves today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which...
...Jiggs & Maggie service. He is almost always willing to help the Hearstpapers pick a Typical American Girl. Dr. William Norman Guthrie's tiff with Bishop William Thomas Manning over "dance rituals" kept them both in the headlines for days (TIME, Feb. 8). Rev. Charles Francis Potter of the First Humanist Society described for gumchewers the last hours of Murderer Francis Crowley (TIME, Feb. 1). But very rarely does publicity attach itself to vigorous, wavy-haired Dr. Robert Norwood of St. Bartholomew's, one of the smartest and richest of U. S. Protestant Episcopal churches.? Dr. Norwood's Sunday sermons...
...Tribune each gave the execution and obituary a column and a half on inside pages. Hearst's morning paper, the American, limited its report to less than two columns. One of its reporters in the death chamber was Rev. Charles Francis Potter, publicity-craving founder of the first Humanist Society in New York. His story began: "I killed a boy a few minutes ago and I don't feel very good about...
...wiggle into their midst. In one of his minor digressions, Mr. Hale attacks Professor Babbitt of Harvard. From the tenor of the article, one might expect Professor Babbitt to be the epitome of the author's desires. Not a hot-head to be sure, but the humanist has on occasion provoked intelligent and original thinking; even his undergraduate opponents, and they are legion, will admit as much. Or does Mr. Hale desire agreement, rather than argument from the faculty...
Philosopher Paul Elmer More (Shelburne Essays), famed "humanist," departed for the University of Glasgow to receive an honorary LL. D. In his cabin baggage were two large crates, full to the brim with modern detective fiction...