Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal Christian magazine. And one could express solidarity, too, with Alexander Ginzburg, the young Russian dissident, who faces trial for the sole crime of distributing monies to other dissidents who have lost their livelihoods because they expressed a desire to emigrate--a right stipulated in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights which says that a man has a right to leave any country that he does not like. Or the several eminent Czech scholars and writers who are reduced to menial jobs, if they can get those, for having signed a declaration which reputes the program of Italian Euro-Communism...
...time, especially for those on the left, to end this myopia of selective indignation and negate their own credentials or claims to be the defenders of "liberation," "emancipation," and the desire that "the international" be the human race? Let us have a single standard of morality, revolutionary and otherwise. --Daniel Bell Professor of Sociology
...already begun and final papers will soon be due.) His microphoned voice echoing over the empty hall, Petric delivers what some will later say is his most brilliant and successful lecture of the term: an excoriating blast of the Arts at Harvard, Harvard students, commercial cinema, and even of human existence. (Petric: I was sitting up in bed the other night when I began to laugh. My wife asked, "Why are you laughing?" "Because life is so absurdly funny," I told...
...jailed by the white rulers--the Black Consciousness movement meant a great deal. The Black Consciousness movement, as expressed by the all-black South African Students Organization and by the Black People's Convention, meant that South African blacks had a vocabulary with which they could define themselves as human beings in their own right, with their own culture to be proud of. They would no longer define themselves in the negative, as non-white...
...description of the Vietnam conflict that the reader is most cheated. Not because Nixon misses any details, or fails to deem it important and emotional. Nixon even provides an anecdote on Kent State that succeeds in making even the great villain of those days somewhat human, stating his sympathy for the parents and students who died "protesting a decision they felt was wrong...