Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensuality, withering sarcasm and soaring intelligence. He cuts through the music of the Shakespearean line to the marrow of its meaning. He spares the perfidious king who killed his father no contempt, but he saves his rage for the unfeeling gods who, in all true tragedy, make and mangle human destiny. Take him, all in all, for a great, mad, doomed, spine-shivering Hamlet, and anyone who fails to see Williamson during this limited engagement will not look upon his like again...
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the catastrophic Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, outrageous, funny and profoundly rueful fable tries to say something about human cruelty and self-protective indifference...
...came about. For the most part; it was caused by the default of other branches of Government, lower courts and society in general. When neither the executive nor the legislative branch cared enough about the Negro to guarantee his basic rights as a citizen, not to mention as a human being, the Warren Court outlawed school segregation, setting in motion the civil rights advances of the '50s and '60s. When no other body of Government seemed concerned that city dwellers were made second-class citizens by the grossest forms of malapportionment, the court said that one man was allowed...
Assistant Attorney General McLaren is trying mightily to dispel the dark. Since January, when he switched from lucrative private practice as a lawyer defending companies in antitrust cases, he has flailed conglomerates for evils ranging from excessive economic concentration to "human dislocation." Proud that Republicans "have historically been vigorous enforcers of antitrust," McLaren is becoming the most active-and visible-trustbuster since the days of Teddy Roosevelt; his broadsides have helped chill investor enthusiasm for multimarket companies...
Although Edgar has lost much of the power and the energy of Hippolytus as it was written to be performed, Euripides' sympathy for human misfortune is clearly there. To see it, go to Dunster House--and listen...