Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anguish of townspeople poisoned by mercury dumped into local waters by a chemical company. Although he was severely beaten and nearly blinded by goons, he documented the tragedy in his book Minamata, published in 1975. An intense, uncompromising craftsman, Smith strove to make timeless, pointed statements about the human condition. "Photography is not just a job to me," he once explained. "I'm carrying a torch with a camera...
...steady fire of political comment, and his socialism slips in discreetly enough so that even American audiences in the '50s could stomach it. But it's Weill's brooding, often harsh music--so evocative of Weimar Germany's rotten core--that fixes The Threepenny Opera's world of human iniquity and mortality in the audience's mind. Maybe it's just a case of the fascination of the grotesque: the songs aren't beautiful, but you don't forget them...
Kross has spent most of his free time this past week burrowing through the paperwork involved in applying for the Rhodes Scholarship. Clark, on the other hand, has been interested in human rights issues for years and was active in the South Africa protests last spring...
...will not be the appearance of writer and storyteller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, not the recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Thus, The Swedish Academy of Letters did not cite the author for his "impassioned narrative art which, with its roots in a Polish-Jewish tradition, brings universal human conditions to life," adding that current comparisons of Singer's work to that of Russian author Leo Tolstoy have absolutely no validity...
...does the United States government continue to support one of the bloodiest dictatorships in the world--thereby continuing in its role as an accomplice to the crimes and human rights violations perpetrated against the Nicaraguan people by the U.S.-created, U.S.-trained, and U.S.-armed Nicaraguan National Guard...