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...Employment Service counselor, suggests with diffident charm that the U.S.E.S. of adversity can sometimes be sweet. And Quinn, though his dese and his dose and his freeform nose get tiresome after awhile, nevertheless gives a heartfelt interpretation of a decent human being taken up by an inhuman racket as casually as if he were a cigarette: when the racket has used him up it drops him; and because there still seems to be a spark of life left in what's left of him, it steps on him and slowly, thoroughly, grinds him into the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man Is Like a Cigarette | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

Gliickwünsche for writing such an excellent account of the Wall of Shame. Having visited Berlin during the past month, I can now wholeheartedly agree that the barrier is "unnatural and inhuman." To see the clean, modern and progressive city of West Berlin and, in contrast, the poverty of the Eastern half makes one realize that the benefits of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 14, 1962 | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Song III is from Franz Kafka's Diaries: This last week was like a total breakdown. . . . The clocks do not synchronize; the inner one chases in a devilish, or demoniac, or at any rate inhuman manner; the outer one goes haltingly at its usual pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Experiment in Time | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...Something of Value, the hero is a superhuman, inhuman colonial who slaughters Mau Mau while they are sleeping, does not spare women or children$#151;this would be a sign of weakness. The novel ends on a note of hope, from Ruark's point of view. One of the big African politicians gets a good dressing down from a colonial and finally recognizes that he should have stayed satisfied with his primitive life in the bush. "We are fast becoming a people of half-white, half-smart, half-civilized spivs and scoundrels and loafers and whores," he confesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Man's Burden | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...vampire who is responsible for the publication of pages from the JFK Coloring Book [June 8] should get on his knees and pray God's forgiveness for the most pernicious, diabolic, venomous, ruthless, inhuman attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

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