Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government's use of psychiatry for political purposes is particularly dangerous because it is a direct assault on the victim's mind. The problem is compounded by the inhuman, illegal conditions of detention in the special psychiatric hospitals, by the conformity and hypocrisy of our closed society and by the absence of an independent press. I am speaking here about any use of psychiatry for political or ideological purposes, not just those cases when mentally healthy patients are forcibly confined in psychiatric hospitals...
...toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward, many of the first classic photos of the newfound landscape appeared as engravings in Harper's Weekly and other periodicals. What they were reporting back East was not just scenery but, once again, news -- of the young nation's vastness, its inhuman scale, its economic potential and hard physical challenges...
...want people to know that homophobia isunacceptable and inhuman anywhere," Barrios said."We bisexual, gay and lesbian students of Harvardare asking to be treated as equals, as other humanbeings...
...caught fire. There were maybe 100 to 200 men grouped in the back of the boat because the front < was in flames. But the wind kept whipping the fire back on them, and the men were crying. It was a kind of moan, but a collective moan, an inhuman moan. I tried to drag a man out of the water and up onto the beach, but there was an obstacle. It was half a human body. The head and shoulders were gone, the torso cut right away . . . Ah, it was awful...
...course, I understand the lure of final clubs, and I understand why many dozens of men will be joining these organizations this week. Harvard, as we all know, is a large and inhuman place in the guise of a small, private school, and therefore the alienation we all feel as students here is not only painful but confusing because it seems that we all ought to be on top of the world. But we're not. So we all do stupid things. Like join final clubs...