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...torture and prisoner abuse say it is remarkably easy for people to lapse into sadistic behavior when they have complete power over other human beings, especially if they feel the behavior has been sanctioned by an authority figure. In a classic series of studies conducted at Yale in the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram showed that psychologically healthy volunteers did not hesitate to administer what they thought were electric shocks to another human being when instructed to do so by a researcher. Two-thirds followed instructions and kept raising the voltage--right up to levels marked DANGER: SEVERE SHOCK...
Would that Valentin had a touch of that strangeness. Played by relentlessly adorable Rodrigo Noya, 8-year-old Valentin lives in 1960s Buenos Airesdeserted by his mother, ignored by his philandering father and boarding with his cranky, sickly grandma. Eventually, he more or less invents a family to attach himself to. But this is not The 400 Blows. Director-writer Alejandro Agresti flat out denies the implicit--and, yes, existential--terrors of this child's desperately improvised life. Agresti's just out to give us a sentimental good time. Which some people, heaven help us, will have--while the rest...
...current tutorial] was taught to sophomores year after year more or less along the same conceptual lines—but with longer and longer lists of readings—since the late 1960s,” said Spanagel...
Elliott grew up without questioning segregation. But he changed in the 1960s, especially after a teaching stint at a black school run by Methodists. He now believes that it's his mission, particularly as R.M. Elliott's grandson, to bring about the same change of heart in his white neighbors. "We owe those black families a great debt for what they did to further democratize this country," he says. "If whites reject the significance of the case and the bravery of the plaintiffs, then we're really rejecting our democracy...
...Jesus Die?" Was a clear exposition of traditional theological interpretations of his death [April 12]. But it did not include the insights of liberation and feminist theologies. Latin American liberation theology, born in the 1960s amid that region's poverty and oppression, includes a focus on the social dimensions of sin and grace. Thus the death of Jesus and his Resurrection are a liberation from the power of both personal sin and social sin, such as injustice, racism and sexism. Feminist theologians ask, Can a Saviour who is male save women? Some say yes, seeing in the death of Jesus...