Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter Barnes' Noses offers a perspective on human misery almost antithetical to that of the dark and despairing Seventh Seal. Barnes interprets the expression "black humor" literally, making it the basis for an inquiry into the comic aspects of a death-obsessed...
...three-hour Bent offers a harrowing depiction of the depths of human depravity. Veteran Harvard theatergoers may worry that such a play would be hard enough to sit through without the added trial of Mark Prascak's direction, given Prascak's string of unconventional adaptations. Such worries, however, are groundless. Prascak directs the play straight, on a stark, paint-splattered set, and lets the story--rather than his direction--come to the forefront...
Such a move would be one of the most dramatic signs yet from Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that he seeks a definitive break with past Soviet human rights practices, which have included the confinement of people who disagree publicly with Kremlin policy...
Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, said last month the number of people imprisoned in Soviet labor camps, psychiatric hospitals or exiled for their political beliefs numbered about 200, compared to 10,000 a few years...
...January, Soviet human rights activist Andrei D. Sakharov gave Gorbachev a list of 200 Soviets he said were imprisoned because of their political or religious views...