Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humanist Trinity. But Kate's assessment suffers when she tries to defend such stoic values as "Discipline, Responsibility, and Grace"-a humanist trinity of behavior that at times can be confused with Repression, Conformity and Manners...
Moravia is not a Communist but considers himself a Marxist humanist. For this reason, he found in Chinese poverty a refreshing contrast to what he considers the economic excesses of the West. In a sentence reminiscent of Man as an End, his collection of essays published between 1941 and 1963, he writes: "Poverty and chastity are the two normal conditions of man, or at least they ought to be in the world today." In China's destitution and Mao's efforts to eradicate the past, Moravia finds the possibility of rejuvenation. For, once the past has been destroyed...
...Time Being. The blanket calls to patriotism are almost more than many Czechoslovaks can bear. "I don't know what to do," says a history student in West Germany. "If there is any chance of winning this battle, I want to go back and help build humanist socialism. But if there is no chance of winning, how can I go back to face intellectual-and maybe even physical-death?" The answer is to plan their lives, in the phrase they often use, "for the time being." But barring a total clamp down on personal liberties, most plan to return...
...learn that the Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit the same acts of aggression in Czechoslovakia as the U.S., which also claims it is free, does in Asia. I can only hope that Czechoslovakia's progress toward realizing a blend of Communist economics with humanist politics will not perish. Long live a free Czechoslovakia...
ALDOUS HUXLEY, by John Atkins; THE HUXLEYS, by Ronald W. Clark. Cynic or mystic? Humanist or cold fish? Both books get close to the answers as they dissect the puzzling genius whose family contributed more than its share of intellectual heavyweights...