Word: inhumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landscapes of the Mind" have a weird, inhuman aspect, Jean Dubuffet is not surprised. He is convinced that "art has much to do with madness." He hopes that his paintings contain many "facts" foreign to the objects he intends to represent, and he is happy "even when these facts are delirious or absurd...
...place in Canton, in a hall named for Sun Yatsen, who learned his Christianity from missionaries. Five Canadian nuns, after nearly nine months in Red China's jails, stood up before a howling mob of 6,000. The "people's court" heard the charges against them: "Neglect, inhuman treatment and murder" of more than 2,000 orphans. One witness, an eleven-year-old girl, shrilly testified that she had been locked up with other youngsters in a room infested with hungry rats that ate at the children's flesh. The sisters, all from the Holy Child orphanage...
Said Anglican Dean Walter R. Matthews of St. Paul's Cathedral, London: "The Pope's teaching would be regarded by most normal people as inhuman ... It seems to me that the death of the mother means the loss of a valuable personality and is certain to cause pain and misery. On the other hand, no one knows whether the child will live. One eventuality is certain, the other problematic." In a front-page editorial, the weekly Church of England Newspaper called the doctrine "inhuman, callous and cruel...
...Teaching) as well as a classical scholar, thinks that dull and stylized teaching is responsible for the students' indifference. This week, talking to the New York Classical Club, Highet explained his criticism. Teaching classics as "perfect books by perfect men," he said, "[will] make them inhuman and impossible for the young...
Rubashov's prosecutor is Gletkin, played by Leo Gordon. In the book, Koestler successfully implied that Gletkin was unimportant in Rubashov's life, that the prosecutor was only a piece of complicated Stalinist machinery--inflexible, inhuman, and moral. However, in the Kingsley play, Gordon's steel-like portrayal was awkward and overplayed. Lois Nettleton took the part of Rubashov's mistress and secretary, and was quite persuasive in proving her loyalty...