Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ivor Armstrong Richards, Lamont University Professor at Harvard, lecturer on literary criticism. Doctor of Letters. Citation: "Versatile and provocative philosopher and man of letters; the chief exponent of Basic English; a roving humanist whose teaching illumines many fields...
Religious humanist Hesse is a novelist and poet whom few Americans have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...
...Dreiser was far less a theorist than a humanist; essentially his novel is not a social thesis but the timeless story of family life. Of Solon's five children, one is set apart by her homeliness; one is a born Pharisee; one is a self-conscious beauty; one is an artist; one is a natural cavalier. Dreiser is interested mainly in the two latter, the arch-rebels. Against them Solon Barnes finds sternness and tolerance equally ineffective. His son and daughter, in the struggle to come to life as autonomous human beings, become thieves, and worse. The soberly beautiful...
...with ambiguous care: "I call this book The Human Life of Jesus not because I don't believe in him, but because I do." But readers will soon see that Professor Erskine is not a Christian, in the strict and simple sense of the word -he is a humanist...
...that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world security system. ¶ At the Vatican: Catholic Humanist Jacques Maritain, who has recently advocated the formation of a strong, conservative party in France to offset French Communism...