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...endowed with an intellectual genius that can compensate for physical deprivation. But Shaw was-and it is this quality that his detractors find so inhuman. "Recognize," Shaw once told Ervine, "that intellect is a passion; that is, an activity of life, far more indispensable than physical ecstasy...
...accept it, however, under the guise of a "timely" study of the individuals who come and go and create this university; we do not accept his confusion, his failure to conclude what to do with the banished "good scholar" students and professors; we do not accept the inhuman (and it is Mr. Raditsa's term) hate, fear and isolation which is the basis of this "humanist's" book. The Editors, The Harvard Advocate
...Canopus Institution (See-Eye) the students are shackled by more than sightlessness. Dr. August, the director, is an icy administrator who thinks the blind really are a different breed, not inhuman, perhaps, but difficult wards of the sighted. What he can least abide is the merest evidence that the blind can also love. The boys and the girls are taught in the same classrooms but they may not associate. A passed note conceived in puppy love is enough to bring down severe punishment. A stolen kiss, a harmless rendezvous, may result in being "shipped," and the likelihood that no other...
Jungschlaeger, a onetime ship's captain, was head of the Dutch Military Intelligence in Indonesia after World War II. He won the lasting hatred of Indonesians by helping to suppress the Indonesia revolt against the Dutch (1947-49), was accused of using inhuman interrogation methods, e.g., putting a boring tick on the navel of a prisoner and waiting for the man to break. When he decided to return to the new Indonesian republic as a Dutch shipping firm executive, his friends warned him against...
...career in the role of the sympathetic and successful neighbor, who could not see Willy's deep lack, the emptiness of which he dreamed most of all. It is Earl Edgerton, in the half-real role of Uncle Ben, who represents this dream. Properly stiff, arrogant, and inhuman, Edgerton conveys the symbolic nature of his part: the power and glory of tangible success, of almost physical conquest, a confusion of real and unreal in Willy's groping mind...