The young male ballet dancer is not a stereotype, and yet the film certainly does not feel it necessary to reassure the audience that Billy is straight; for my money, that's part of this picture's liberal humanity.
As her language indicates, Dillard, who teaches history and politics at the Gallatin School at New York University, writes within the style current among younger, left-liberal humanities scholars -- a timorous style that often sacrifices verve to caution, advancing gingerly toward rather legalistic formulations about human reality.
The news his work provides that liberal humanism is superior precisely because it can encompass the humanity of even those who are most anti-liberal was a revelation.
I am simply arguing that the liberal arts — humanities, social and natural sciences, arts and mathematics — help us find what is meaningful to us, and help us pursue it.
The institute offers 14 majors and 20 minors categorized under engineering, liberal arts, humanities and the sciences.
Long after the strange death of liberal England, this child of privilege, who was said not to know about mortgages, articulated a tolerant humanity that reached worldwide.
"The liberal arts and humanities kind of continuing-education programs haven't been as attractive to people.
Both Lisa Anderson and Santiago Iñiguez stressed the relevance of the liberal arts and humanities in helping students cope with the complexity of modern life.
We may not know exactly what those are, but we can be damn sure they are not liberal arts and humanities subjects.
All Northfield campus students, whether in the military program (the Corps of Cadets) or not, enroll in the same undergraduate curriculum in architecture and art, mathematics and science, business and management, the humanities, liberal studies, nursing, social sciences, and engineering.
And, as you can note from Bill Gates' speech, there is a bias against liberal arts and humanities.
