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Problems & Progress. But it was at a potentially damaging press conference before critical African reporters that Attorney General Bobby Kennedy scored most clearly. Asked a badgering (but inevitable) question about the "inhuman and intolerable conditions of the Negro" in the U.S. South, Bobby forthrightly admitted that problems exist, but the "most important thing is that the U.S. Government and the vast majority of the people are trying to do something about it.'' He noted that Negroes "hold important posts in government; there are Negro ambassadors around the world, Negro judges, mayors, representatives in the U.N. We are making...
...over some stolen apples, the gaudy, almost cheerful parade of prostitutes through London police courts, and the elusive battles of psychiatric testimony. In all, she found the chilling sense of man in the hands of a man-made machine, a machine straining to be both humane in understanding and inhuman in objectivity. The strain is often hardest on the man on the bench. An English barrister thought a good judge ought to be "Oh, a happily married chap, you know; garden, kind heart, good health and not too much out for himself." To which a magistrate added: "Humanity; common sense...
Many men with natural distinction of mind-Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Whittaker Chambers and Gustav Regler -have tried to read the Marxist riddle. By what stages does the self-sacrificing zeal of the idealist recruit to Communism become converted into the coldly inhuman amorality of the full-fledged apparatus man in the party's higher echelons? What turns the Utopian dream of universal brotherhood into the nightmare reality of the police state...
...drew observations from everywhere: "The airplane shows us that a problem well stated finds its solution," but the "problem of the house has not been stated." Then, in his most famous dictum, he said that a house "is a machine for living in." The statement was not so inhuman as it sounded. Only architecture of "passion," he added, could live and last. "Passion can create drama out of inert stone...
...another contemporary issue--capital punishment. "Freedom," he said elsewhere, "is the road to perfectibility"--but this must not mislead. Not liberal perfectibility, not optimism, but the stubborn refusal to deprive a man of his only chance at improvement. Under no circumstances can an irrevocable punishment be out, however inhuman the crime. It is, again, precisely because of the wretchedness of life that life must be allowed...