Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zionist movement into Israel was termed "on of the most inhuman acts of the 20th century" by Abdul Momen Rifa'i,' ambassador from Jordan to the United States, at the Law School Forum on "Harmony in the Middle East" last night...
Robinson, as the detective, is dutifully inhuman throughout. The relish with which he shows movies of the Nazi gas chambers would delight any red-blooded ghoul, and his poker-face in delivering such lines as "You're shocked at my cold-bloodedness" is, for some inexplicable reason, hilarious. Welles is suitably desperate as the Nazi, even though he fails to exhibit any quality which could conceivably have inspired his wife's animal-like devotion to him. Loretta Young plays the animal...
...beach outing he would stumble along behind the party, gazing at a seashell in his fist. His withdrawal may have been necessary, for it concealed an inhuman sort of pride. This passage from Klee's journal stands engraved on his tombstone: "I cannot be understood in purely earthly terms. For I can live as happily with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat nearer to the heart of all creation than is usual. But still far from being near enough...
...latent forces in nature . . . The superman, in the measure that his power increases, becomes himself poorer and poorer. In order to avoid [atomic] destruction, he is obliged to hide himself underground like the beasts of the fields . . . [Lacking] superhuman reason . . . the more we become supermen, the more we become inhuman." Later, Schweitzer mentioned his plan to put all of his prize money ($33,149) into his hospital establishment at Lambaréné, the jungle town that is his home. But, said selfless Albert Schweitzer, more money is still needed. That was hint enough for Oslo's newspapers...
Democrats called Charlie Wilson "revolting . . . inhuman . . . brutal." South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston said he "makes me sick with fear." At week's end, in his first and only speech of the campaign, former President Harry Truman labeled Wilson's words "the attitude of too many big-business spokesmen in the Republican Party." In Buffalo the C.I.O. handed jobless men cans of dog food...