Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beckett once called Endgame, "Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than Godot." Akalaitis humanizes Beckett's inhuman text. While Beckett clearly implies that his play occurs after a nuclear holocaust. Akalaitis attempts to describe physically the status of man after the bomb. She skirts the intellectuality that Beckett's bare setting forces on the play by giving the characters an identifiable environment and downplaying the metaphysical cleverness of the dialogue...
...screen, has preserved a penetrating economy of story-telling. With his small cast of characters, MacLavery deftly illustrates the tensions between sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, presenting frail attempts at connection and willful acts of destruction. The division between the ordinary and the terrible, the human and inhuman, are made disturbingly ambiguous...
While the protesters claim that the play's message is "Catholicism--and by implication religion in general--is a destructive inhuman force that ruins peoples' lives," the performance in fact delivers no such clear statement and seems instead like a Saturday Night Live show gone...
...also curious that Schell's proposal never departs from the commonly accepted deference theory that has ruled the Nuclear Age. Curious, because Schell uses the first half of the book to convincingly argue that deference theory is a contradictory, dangerous, inhuman, and without credibility. He asks us if we would date sacrifice the world to uphold our sovereignty, confident that the only sane and rational answer...
...Marxism would be consigned to "the ash heap of history," Moscow accuses him of wanting to do nothing less than overthrow the Communist regime. One Soviet official advanced the following frightening hypothesis last week: "Reagan has tried to create an image of the Soviet Union as a hostile and inhuman country. It looks to us as if he is preparing the home front, because people must be taught to hate the enemy before a war can be launched...