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...reluctant savior. "He didn't come to Poland to save Jews," survivor Leon Leyson says in Voices from the List. "He came to Poland to make his fortune." Keeping his Jewish workers alive was at first just good business, then a matter of stubborn pride and finally a humanist crusade for which his beneficiaries are ever grateful. "He was life, he was maybe future," says Rena Finder...
...backgrounds less vivid. Each of the later films was more didactic than artistic: decrying corporate greed and ecological devastation ("The Lorax"), indoctrinating children before they are born ("Hoober-bLoob"), delineating the madness of America's arms race with the Soviet Union. Of course the liberal in me, and the humanist too, cheer these sentiments and hope they stuck in the DNA of the kids who watched them. These films may be among the most salutary treasures in Geisel's legacy...
Thompson also said that Gutmann was likely to exercise her bully pulpit, focusing on issues of egalitarianism in education. She’d add the voice of a humanist to a dialogue dominated by economics, he added, alluding to the professions of Yale and Harvard’s presidents...
...feel that some of the deepest crises that we face as a human community have to do with humanist investigations,” she said, adding that she saw a dearth of research in the humanities. “The need for research in the humanities is as deeply urgent as the need for scientific research...
...feel that some of the deepest crises that we face as a human community have to do with humanist investigations,” she said, adding that she saw a dearth of research in the humanities. “The need for research in the humanities is as deeply urgent as the need for scientific research...