Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Godard and his aging enfant terrible cohorts continued their explorations of the bleak and the beleagured, Truffaut continued to see the world placidly, some would say naively, not as an elaborate inhuman maze, but as a series of small victories and small defeats. At this year's New York Film Festival, Godard gave the world his Every Man for Himself, and not very many wanted it. Truffaut gave them The Last Metro, complete with Cartherine Deneuve and Gerald Depardieu, and everyone sighed. In France The Last Metro has been lavishly garnished with awards and is a huge financial success...
...quoted me as saying about Salvador Cayetano: "His eyes, they are hard. I wouldn't like to be his prisoner." This gives the impression that I am a supporter of the inhuman junta in San Salvador against which Cayetano is courageously fighting. The opposite is true. I was not criticizing Señor Cayetano but describing what I believe to be the result of the imprisonment and cruel torture he has suffered...
...judge leaving the room (case of Yuri Orlov) or with no trial whatsoever (Andrei Sakharov). What Rubenstein reveals is that in the Soviet Union, abuses of human rights are not isolated incidents. There are day-to-day harassment, searches, interrogations, interference with phones, psychological confinement, separation of families, inhuman treatment of prisoners. Often the regime is purposely inconsistent creating an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia as the KGB arrests those not directly involved the movement as well as the leaders to keep all off balance...
...During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, the older youths ran rampant as Red Guards, looting and terrorizing the more conservative citizens in their attacks on old customs and beliefs. To many Western observers, it seemed for a long time that the Communist Chinese were engaged in an almost inhuman remolding of their children in their attempt to rebuild the nation...
...almost every case, it has taken a single leader with overpowering moral force to make his countrymen squarely face our deepest problems. America began the long process of solving the inhuman contradictions of race under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln. A hundred years later, it continued that process led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For generations, white Americans had countenanced prejudice and discrimination and Black Americans, intimidated by violence and tradition, failed to take effective action. But when M.L. King agreed to head the Mont-gomery bus boycott people began to muster courage and hope. And only when...