The arts have failed. Look at the kind of painting we're getting today. Look at what's coming out of Hollywood and going on the stage. The great music we used to have in the past just isn't there. Now we have hard rock and country.
Philosophy is in a very sad state now.
So are all the humanities. The one that's growing fastest is the Baptist Church. The Werkmeisters endowed a chair in value theory in FSU's department of philosophy. Though Werkmeister may say that she expects to have little influence in the church or the arts, she has been an uncompromising figure in both. Reuben Thomas was no ordinary father to a girl born in 1908.