Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent establishment of a chair for Roman Catholic studies at the Divinity School prompted Rafton to write his letter. "Students ought to have an opportunity to view the entire humanist movement," he asserted...
Harvardman Bartley's stand against the religious dogmatism of President Nathan Pusey [April 14] and his band of idealists is heroic. Better one humanist steadily working to ameliorate the evils that afflict mankind than 100 men of religion insisting that each has a monoply on the truth...
Jorge Guillen characterized the Spanish Seventeenth Century humanist poet Luis de Gongora as "a poetic architect" who "constructed an art comparable to the works of Picasso," in his third and final Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lecture last night...
Guillen, speaking on "Gongora: poetic language," said that the humanist was especially gifted in using words to create symbols. He told his audience at Longfellow Hall that "by the use of metaphors, a new reality is created--a reality to the second power...
...Every humanist theme and subject was prohibited. According to the communists, literature and other branches of the arts have only one task, to build communism by convincing and agitating the people. This intent was adequately expressed by the schematic characters in communist fiction. The chief characters were...