Word: inhuman
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...plot has weaknesses, mainly in its inability to give the whys and wherefores for such inhuman antics, but Sanders' performance stands aloof from these frailties. He dominates the picture from the first signs of the impending storm through his emotional typhoon, through the human wreckage that he leaves behind, down to the final calm...
...bombed. Everyone remembered how Hero Jimmy Doolittle (obviously coached) had said: "Not one U.S. plane was shot down and none was damaged to an extent which precluded its proceeding to its final destination." When Tokyo announced last week that the Japanese would severely punish four captured airmen for their "inhuman act" in bombing Tokyo, everyone thought it was more Jap eyewash. Then the Japs came out with names and addresses (Lieut. William J. Farrow, of Darlington, S.C.; Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex.; Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.; Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, of Madras...
...page) novel by the author of Mozart and Of Lena Geyer is an unusually successful attempt to dramatize the central factor in the last half-century of U.S. life-big industry. To most writers, industry has been a monster-to be avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling in straw boaters...
...tried to help. Navy pilots, bailing out, have been machine-gunned by the enemy on the way down. Next day, Japanese military spokesmen said captured American airmen, who had allegedly taken part in the April 18 raid on Japan, would be "severely punished in accordance with international law for inhuman acts...
...other is the amazing ability of business to do the job just about as well with less help when it has to. Despite a reputation for operating with the inhuman efficiency of a packaging machine, all business has its soft spots-some in the head, some in the heart. Management in the end comes down to a manager with the usual human inertia and reluctance to fire anyone if he can help it. Under war pressure more workers can be released for more direct connection with the war effort. And if Washington would relieve business of such...