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Concerning your inhuman equation of Senator McCarthy and J. Robert Oppenheimer: I must say that ... I have never read such a sickening . .. and unfeeling . . . piece ... I certainly agree with your opinions on McCarthy, but when you say that Oppenheimer puts his judgment above the law and "he has a basic disrespect for security regulations," it seems to me that you are not only playing partisan Republican politics, but you are submitting yourselves to the . . . greatest degree of misunderstanding...
...Inhuman Beings. Author Fairbrother leaves no doubt about her love for her children, 4 and 5 at the time of her writing, but many a less discerning mother may be startled by one of her typical observations: "Charming they may be, but still it is lonely living with children, and at times I long for my fellow creatures which these are not. For children as young as these are strange animals, and we have no way of understanding each other. They are alien, inhuman beings, less considerate than a dog, less controlled than a horse, less conscious than...
...mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...
...Bolshevism as such cannot be changed by democratic means," he said. "It is inhuman the way it is set up, always seeking to wipe out its foes...
...through Coriolanus, Shakespeare vented his own presumed contempt for the common people, he was by no means taking his hero's side. The play portrays the fickle, mindless mob as the poor creature of human vanity, but it also exhibits a fiery, mindless Coriolanus as the victim of inhuman pride. Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom her child...