Prof Seamus Perry, chair of the English faculty at Oxford University, compared Dylan's talent to that of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, calling the songwriter "representative and yet wholly individual, humane, angry, funny and tender by turn; really, wholly himself, one of the greats".
All these qualities, along with his capacity for placing his floundering, aspiring heroes, with a few brushstrokes, in a multilayered evocation of the world in which they must struggle to survive, make of him one of the most individual, humane, and perpetually contemporary of novelists.
"However, the decision to transfer a detainee is made only after detailed, specific conversations with the receiving country about the potential threat a detainee may pose after transfer and the measures the receiving country will take in order to sufficiently mitigate that threat, and to ensure that the individual receives humane treatment," he said.
This wasn't the cunning, forensic brain of a Sherlock Holmes but the realistic depiction of a humane individual who just happened to solve crimes for a living.
Confucians associated the humane individual with the junzi, or cultured gentleman, whose exemplary behaviour distinguishes him from the petty person (xiaoren; literally a "small person," like a child).
"He's a very humane individual, and he's also a very good scientist".
We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are richer, more humane and much more joyful".
If we accept that smoking is for many constitutive of personhood, identity and a source of pleasure, as well as fully embodied and part of how they function as physical beings in connection with the everyday things of the world, we might envisage more nuanced ways of supporting cessation for individuals, and encourage more humane, less stigmatising attitudes towards those who smoke.
In his reflective poems and in his treatises, Schiller sets out to show how art can help man to attain this inner harmony and how, through the "aesthetic education" of the individual citizen, a happier, more humane social order may develop.
"Big Tech is unlikely to take meaningful leadership in humane design, and individuals are at a loss for what to do because developing healthier digital habits is a long-term, manual, iterative process," he adds.
Ross, the DOD spokesman, said that Obama "has made very clear that the United States will ensure the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in US custody in the context of armed conflicts, consistent with the treaty obligations of the United States, including the Geneva Conventions".
