Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Which Human Rights...
...quite puzzled as to what President Carter specifically meant by "human rights" when he lectured President Park of South Korea [July 9]. There are many different rights for different people. My nephew died of hunger and parasitic infection. Today in South Korea no child has to starve to death. The most important human right is the right to life, the right to survival...
They never liked him anyhow. From the moment Jimmy Carter took office, Europeans and many other non-Americans were deeply suspicious of his moralistic preachments and skeptical of his political wisdom. With a combination of fascination and dismay, they read his shifting pronouncements on energy, human rights and monetary policy. They were disturbed by his folksy style, his reliance on a rather young and unworldly circle of advisers from back home, and his insistence on pushing his family to the foreground. Rosalynn's role in White House decision making was unsettling, and Amy's tagging along on state...
GRACE SHOHET portrays the play's most interesting and controversial character, the lesbian Countess Geschwitz, who sacrifices everything for Lulu. Wedekind created the only fully rounded human portrait in the role of Countees Geschwitz, and Shohet infuses it with pathos. Her despairing speech in the last act strikes one of the few sincere notes in an otherwise emotionally detached production...
Despite the high quality of the acting and the consistently clever staging, the play itself somehow remains insubstantial. By failing to people his sinister world with real human beings, Wedekind never touches emotion. It's like waking up from a nightmare, only to find nothing there to worry about...