Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large man with a great shock of black hair, he looked like he would have been at home in the American Senate of the last century, trading stares with Webster and Calhoun. His energy appeared inexhaustable; the roles of journalist and professor, Yugoslav patriot and international intellectual, revolutionary and humanist seemed to struggle inside him with the fervor of old and friendly competitors. The tensions were there, but they were sources of strength, not weakness...
...found himself in the extraordinary position of defending the United States, insisting on the complexities of Vietnam, and praising the American right of free speech. In another context he might have spoken differently, but the quota of radicalism was well filled that night. Dedijer as an intellectual humanist, and even more, as a European, tried to redress the balance...
Against this background, Dedijer the revolutionary has conceded some points to Dedijer the humanist. He still believes that the "proletarian nations"--the under-developed countries--have a basic right to industrialize. Suppression of the individual, violence, and even Communism, however, are not the only means of revolution. Europe bequeathed to Africa and Asia what Dedijer calls a "double legacy"--a hatred of capitalist exploitation and a love for equality and freedom. This double legacy has been fused into the new revolutionary force of socialist movements of national liberation, which will hopefully remain neutral and avoid the excesses of either...
...wall scenes of architectural vistas help make the museum's Roman painting the best outside Italy, as well as giving a sense of the 1st century B.C. country squire's yearning for civility. The private study of a 15th century Italian duke, Federigo da Montefeltro, a Renaissance humanist, is a fool-the-eye masterwork; the tiny think chamber appears to have cabinets popping open with navigational tools, books and musical instruments. It is all illusion, a 91-foot cube for a pensive nobleman to fail-safe...
...concrete applications to existential problems. As it progresses, it will turn more to the questions of the significance of human life and the application of the Christian message to the existential circumstance." It will also be open to the insights of science and non-Christian faiths, even to the humanist values-a deep concern for other men's welfare, an intelligently empirical approach to moral issues-of contemporary unbelief...