Word: inhumanism
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...safety is an illusion, and so is paradise. Speaking before another Chautauqua audience this day, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, says that it is inhuman and arrogant for doctors to prolong life artificially if nothing but pain or coma lies ahead for the patient. His predominantly gray-haired audience cheers. A moment later, one of his listeners falls ill. As he is carried out by ambulance attendants, he gives a V sign to the crowd...
...I.R.A. violence was condemned in Ireland and Britain alike. Ireland's Prime Minister Charles Haughey, who has had chilly relations with Thatcher ever since he declared Irish neutrality in the Falklands war, did not hesitate to condemn "those responsible for these inhuman crimes [that] do irreparable damage to the good name of Ireland and to the cause of Irish unity." Traveling in the U.S. to explain Britain's plan for returning local power to Northern Ireland, which is now governed directly from London, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland James Prior urged Irish Americans to stop supporting...
Even without the growing international threat from the Soviet Union's aggressive and expansive policy, even without the inhuman crushing of the Afghan people and even without the renewed Polish tragedy, it ought to be self-evident that the United States' partners should favor policies inspired by a spirit of friendship and cooperation. This applies more than ever since the senseless escalation of the Falklands conflict into a bloody war whose real victor-and not merely in regard to Latin America-can only be the Soviet Union...
There are other eerie possibilities in the interplay between language and the inhuman. Suppose, one of Steiner's hunters reflects, that the saintly scholars who first copied down the holy words of the Torah made a mistake somewhere, and that in this mistake lies the explanation for all the world's discords. Or suppose, the hunter goes on, it was the unnamable name of God that was taken down wrongly, so that "each time we call upon Him we call in error and cough like toads in the green scum...
...Bellow again demonstrates his keen sense of how all these disparate people are thrown, indeed, bonded together over huge distances and years. Even in this his "dark" book. Bellow shows a strong instinct for seeking out and lauding the crumbs of humanity he finds in the interstices of an inhuman world. The appearance of crowds of Valeria's friends at her funeral dressed in the threadbare finery they saved from the pre-way years is an occasion for quiet joy. And in the give-and-take between Corde and his wife. Bellow demonstrates his acute sense of the way emotional...