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...Pack of Janitors. 1957's S.F. rests on a much frailer human base. Most of its stories explore the fantastic world of outer space with characters of a type unknown today-inhuman humans subject to telepathy, telekinesis, multiple personality, and an infinite capacity for shifting to and fro in spacetime. As characters, they are deader than the planets they visit; as explorers, they are about as intrepid as a pack of apartment-house janitors. Samples...
Textual Behavior. In Des Moines, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled out as grounds for divorce a charge by Mrs. Valera M. Clough that one of her husband's "cruel and inhuman" practices was to read aloud from Dr. Alfred Kinsey's study of American women...
...party . . . symptoms of distrust towards the command . . . lack of faith in socialism and in its superiority over the capitalist system. There is a tendency to condemn all the work done in the past twelve years; we are also inclined not to notice all the "evil and all that is inhuman in the capitalist structure, or the aggressiveness of the imperialist policy which heads for war. We notice doubts in the purposefulness of our alliance with the Soviet Union, in the importance of Soviet aid for our economy, and in the Soviet support of our national interests. In the army there...
...Sociologist Allvar Jacobson, in an open letter to the chairman of the Board of Regents, charged Stout with "inhuman and capricious treatment." Finally, in 1956, 300 students demonstrated in downtown Reno, hung their president in effigy, waved placards reading "Out with Stout." With no hearing at all, the administration expelled six student demonstrators only to have to back down in the face of public protest...
...thousand years ago, Cato Major, musing on the problem of inhuman courage, said: "There is a difference between a man's prizing valor at a great rate, and valuing life at little." In their book, Coauthors Van Doren and Roske (a Civil War historian) are similarly bemused by Will Cushing's reckless bravery. They contrast it with the more measured courage of his brother Alonzo, a man who knew fear and hated war, yet died bravely at Gettysburg. Like many another hero, Will Cushing found it hard to adjust to peace. His final escapade in Cuba came close...