Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLECTED ESSAYS, by Graham Greene. In retrospective notes and criticism, the prolific novelist provocatively drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey...
...dominant spokesman for the nation's Governors, refused to accept it. He changed the subject from the peace dividend to what is known as the "growth dividend," resulting from the normal expansion of the U.S. economy. Rockefeller reported that a study commissioned by the Governors Conference Committee on Human Resources, which he headed, had produced some interesting figures. Never mind whether any money comes from the slowdown in Viet Nam; the study projected that federal revenues would increase by $15 billion in 1970, $16 billion in 1971, $18 billion in 1972, on up to $20 billion in 1976. Cumulatively...
Finally, for those whose frustrations cannot be expunged by small, subtle victories, Matusow proposes direct confrontation-attacking the inhuman enemy with the most human of weapons: "Women going into a room with a bank of computers are advised to wear a lot of the cheapest perfume they can find." Computers operate effectively only in "clean" air, Matusow explains, and are highly sensitive to environmental changes. Heavy dollops of perfume could paralyze a computer as effectively as they do those of a weak-kneed human office worker...
Wrong Dream. They might be, except that Condon loses his balance and -odd for him-goes off the shallow end. For the first time in eight novels, he wavers from his delightful obsession that maniacal rigidity is civilization's main motivating force and therefore the only human quirk worth a novelist's attention. He begins to worry solemnly about what went wrong with the American Dream. One of the results is a lengthy mumble that goes like this...
...after the other, as the dictators appeared, he applauded Mussolini. Hitler and Stalin -in the no-nonsense manner of a Fabian socialist committee-on the grounds that they were cleaning up a mess. Such obtuseness in a man whose life is a record of devotion to decency in human life can be explained only as an aberration, perhaps a dramatist's occupational disability of putting his own words into the mouths of other characters. Lenin saw Shaw as "a good man fallen among Fabians." Shaw, perversely, seemed to regard dictators as good Fabians fallen among fanatics...