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Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, will address a meeting of the Humanist Society in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks House at 5 p.m. next Tuesday...
Ostensibly Faustus is the biography-in-progress of a fictitious German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, who was born in 1885 and died insane in 1940. The biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind...
With regard to the letters from Symon Gould and E. L. Pratt [TIME, May 3], and your quote from my Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More to substantiate what you previously wrote about More's meat-eating habits, let me add that what Erasmus says comes from a very long and detailed letter about his closest friend...
...TIME'S authority for citing Sir Thomas More as a meat-eater was Erasmus, as quoted by Theodore Maynard in his book, Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More (Macmillan; 1947): "He likes to eat corned beef and corned bread much leavened, rather than what people count delicacies...
...while Hitler drilled his bullies, Ernst Juenger greased their path to power with his doctrine of total nihilism. Rejecting both traditional Christian and humanist values, he expressed the kind of diseased fascination with violence that led Germany's rootless youth into the Führer's ranks. "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture," he wrote, "are only maintained and spread aloft by wars...