Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize the Nazis thought of Jews as being somewhat less than human, but the atrocities committed in the Holocaust cannot be easily rationalized away. They show the depravity possible in a particular political system and should 'be a constant reminder to us that under certain circumstances, we are all capable of the most heinous of crimes...
...outraged preacher, and a clear-thinking, astute political leader. Not to mention his astounding ability to create some of the finest music from a strictly instrumental standpoint. You can never understand Marley until you listen to his music. The music makes the insanity intelligible. It makes normally inscrutable human beings--Marley--and his Rastafarian brethren--seem like prophets in a sea of herecy...
...performance this weekend will include "Escape," choreographed by Sokolow, in which she portrays the different stages of love in a woman's life and "Mothers of Israel," choreographed by Margalit Oved, in which she recreates the human personalities of the four Jewish mothers, Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel...
Finding the diversion welcome, most of the world was watching as Neil Armstrong slowly descended the steps of the lunar module (LEM--remember?), hesitated for a moment on the final rung, then placed the first human bootprint on another world. ("The surface appears to be very, very fine-grained," Armstrong observed while his friend "Buzz" waited to join him, "it's almost sort of a powder.") It was bona fide Big Stuff. CBS and provided 31 hours of continued coverage; ABC naturally stopped after 30. "Save us a copy," the astronauts radioed back, when informed that the New York Times...
...question will not go away. When the cattle cars with their human cargoes rumbled off for Auschwitz, where were the righteous in the Third Reich? Each of these three books seeks answers, and in sum they are heartening. Fritz Molden, himself a fighter in the Austrian resistance, puts it best in Exploding Star: "Where there are people who disrupt, destroy and torture there are also, beyond all doubt, others who help, heal and support...