Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While some writers believe that the computer will one day replace the man, I have always been persuaded that a million years of development of the heart, the conscience and all the other instincts that we call "human" can never really be replaced by anything technological. After reading your excellent article, I remain of the same frame of mind...
...human rights. When Communist Russia and Capitalist America finally stand before the dread Judgment Seat neither, I imagine, will lack for accusers. Yes, Moscow's record on individual liberties is execrable. But the black ghettos in American cities are unforgivable. How can the richest nation countenance them...
...become a feminist. To prove it, Bergen, 31, joined Gloria Steinem and other members of the National Women's Political Caucus last week at a fund raiser for the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA, she told the audience, assures women in the U.S. "only the fundamental human rights." As for Italian women: "They've [just] gone from basic black to blue jeans and marching, from the Middle Ages to future shock. Italian men are in shock...
...their apex and you get an O'Casey. Even a lesser Irish dramatist like Hugh Leonard can be uncommonly rewarding. Da, now at Manhattan's Hudson. Guild Theater, means dad. The play is a fencing match with the ghosts of the past. The blood drawn is palpably human, the wit, parried and thrust, strikes sparks of continuous and sometimes quite unexpected humor. Says the father in Da of his late wife: "She died an Irishwoman's death-drinking tea." The laughs crop up like that, not as explosions but implosions, deeply rooted in character and race...
...Thorn Birds, McCullough (3) 3. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (2) 4. Scruples, Krantz (7) 5. The Black Marble, Wambaugh (6) 6. The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carré (4) 7. Illusions, Bach (8) 8. The Women's Room, French (5) 9. Rachel, The Rabbi's Wife, Tennenbaum 10. The Human Factor, Greene