Word: inhumanely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black leaders elsewhere in Africa denounced the life sentences as inhuman, but the fact remains that the outcome could have been worse. The defendants, while pleading their "moral" innocence, admitted a great many of the charges; nine other South Africans, tried in a similar case last year, had been sentenced to death. But this time the government evidently decided that death sentences would have created super-martyrs who, from the grave, could have rallied South Africa's often dis jointed blacks and coloreds as well as many white liberals...
...such things as yanking young girls out of their homes at 3 o'clock in the morning and sending them off to some camp for some real or fancied offense, it is setting in force some awfully basic and powerful emotions." The U.S., he says, wanted "oppressive and inhuman" practices stopped, urged religious freedom and wanted Diem's malevolent brother Ngo Dinh Nhu sent into exile. But "absolutely nothing" was done "either to stimulate or thwart a coup...
...first editor of Pravda (1912)-for particular vituperation. Harking back to the murderous Soviet purges of the 1930s, Suslov accused Molotov of attempting to surpass Stalin's brutality-he "tried to be a better Catholic than the Pope." Asked Suslov: "Is it not the restoration of these inhuman customs that the Chinese leaders are seeking...
...Charlie, Behrman is improvising on the theme of "the inhuman race" in a rueful comedy of good, bad and bed manners. The play's hero, Seymour Rosenthal (Jason Robards Jr.), is busy soul-rinsing the filthy millions he inherited from his philistine movie-magnate father. Seymour has established a foundation to give grants to needy and worthy writers. Painfully diffident, Seymour has all but turned the running of the foundation over to an extravert pal from Yale days, self-interested Charles Taney (Ralph Meeker), who would rather down a Scotch than lift a book...
Divorced. By Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher, 32: Edwin Jack Fisher, 35; on grounds of abandonment, cruelty and inhuman treatment; after almost five years of legal marriage, no children; in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was, as they say, a Mexican standoff, Eddie being in Puerto Rico while Liz was in Toronto with the leading candidate to stretch her name by six more letters; but Liz did not have to be there in person, and when no one showed up from Eddie's side during the 21-day waiting period, Liz's lawyers won the award "by default...