The Humane Imperative(2nd Edition) A Challenge for the Year 2000 (The Terry Lectures Series) by Theodore M. Hesburgh, KingmanBrewsterJr. Hardcover, 127 Pages, Published 1974 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-13579-4, ISBN: 0-300-13579-3
"What we read in the newspapers each day and what we consider to be world trends in the last decade do not leave much room for enthusiasm or hopefulness. It is easy for Americans―idealists and realists alike―to fall into despairing attitudes of cynicism, hopelessness, and laissez-faire. Father Hesburgh is a living antidote to this failure of spirit, through the work of his own busy and effective life―one devoted to improving the condit ..."
"The twenty-seven commencement adÂdresses by twenty-five distinguished colÂlege and university presidents brought together here provide an extraordinary sampling of the social history of our time and an inspiring expression of faith in the future. Perhaps in no other period have we experienced as violent a âtidal wave of swift-moving and bewildering events,â as one of the commencement speakers whose utterances are included in this ..."
""Verbal bluntness and practical boldness are the marks of these three pieces by Henry Ford II. His bluntness is in happy contrast to the artful double-talk which comes from the effort to please everybody. Ambiguity is not a happy or respected refuge. And literary persiflage is not a successful camouflage for the lack of ideas. Here there is an honest effort to 'tell it like it ought to be' even if that is sometimes different from 'telli ..."