Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which a gang determined to kill all the Thoroughbred horses wandered through the stables at night with axes. Horses as a breed survived, but many of them turned out to be horses with the psychology of mice. We need to do much more to be able to restore our human breed, which has suffered such losses. We must not allow ourselves to tolerate our own patience. Priterpelost is the main obstacle to perestroika...
Albee's games with language are his strength, not only because they provide the most laughs, but also because they make a point of the inability of isolated, urban man to touch or communicate with another human being. This point is still relevant, and it is the reason that The American Dream and The Zoo Story are still chilling--and still worth seeing...
...great prison memoirs spawned by Russia's cruel history are alike in essence. From Dostoyevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead to Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and now Natan Sharansky's Fear No Evil, they reveal a world of unrelenting human degradation: the bestiality of the jailers, the dog-eat-dog struggle among the prisoners, the treachery of the informers. Each account evokes the stench, the rattle of fetters, the heart-stopping cold, the killing hard labor. Still, each author used different stratagems to survive, to prevail as a human being and, ultimately, to bear witness...
This week the Vatican representatives hoped to meet with Gorbachev. Casaroli was hand-carrying the Pope's first personal letter to the party leader, a three-page missive written in Russian that referred to the human rights claims of Catholics and other minorities. The dialogue may continue face-to-face if Gorbachev includes a papal visit in his anticipated trip to Italy later this year...
...think of Hockney is to think of pictorial skill and a total indifference (in the work, at least) to the dark side of human experience. Does the latter make him a less serious painter? Of course not, any more than it trivialized the work of that still underrated artist Raoul Dufy. At root, Hockney is popular because his work offers a window through which one's eye moves without strain or fuss into a wholly consistent world. That world has its cast of recurrent characters -- friends, lovers and family. Hockney's portraits of his parents, in particular, are full...