Word: inhumanities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., gave front-page display to San Francisco's 1989 gay freedom-day parade, copy editor Bill Walter declared in a memo, "Bad things, disgusting things, inhuman things happen . . . But we don't have to describe every naked person, or show a photo of every dead body." The message was clear: "disgusting" things are better left off the front page. That is a dangerous mind-set for a journalist. Yet that spirit has permeated coverage of gay issues in general -- and of AIDS in particular...
...many Europeans the inhuman crimes of the Third Reich are as vivid as yesterday. The very word German can cause a shudder; some are convinced that history could repeat itself. Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Irish academic, has a preposterously anachronistic vision: "In the new, proud, united Germany, the nationalists will proclaim the Fourth Reich. I can see some of the consequences: expulsion of Jews, breaking off of relations with Israel, a military mission to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a statue of Hitler in every town...
...Fall of '88, in a small classroom in Sever, John Clive completely revitalized my love of history. The trouble with most history, in the college-formatted segment of history encased in Books, is that it is badly written. Badly written: boring, numbing, abstruse, statistical, dessicated, inhuman. Learning about the lives and actions of the human race through the bloodless method of sitting still with a sheaf of pages on your lap is difficult enough, but if the writing is also uninspiring...
Stuart was also protected by the enormity of his crime. Statistics show that almost a third of all women who are murdered are killed by their husbands or boyfriends. Yet the mind recoils from the notion, from the all but inhuman possibility, that a man would slaughter his pregnant wife and unborn child, whose birth he had been preparing for in childbirth class only minutes earlier...