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...stutterers have been put through pain by unfeeling people, and when a character like Porky Pig and a song like K-k-k-katie are made popular, we realize just how inhuman these people are. We are intelligent citizens who hold respectable jobs and would prefer to be treated as such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1977 | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

Beverley plays this scene with vivid intensity. In the final moments, with her child dangling in the air, desperation molds her features. Her uncomprehending torment over the scene's inhuman conclusion chills the audience, plunging the theater into a hushed and telling silence. The message has reached home with stunning impact, transcending every barrier to understanding. Men, black and white, cannot fail to share her grief and understand, finally and forever, the wretched folly of their ego-driven attempts to dominate their sisters...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: A Special Spectrum | 11/19/1977 | See Source »

...fired its sharpest salvos in years at the U.S. Izvestiya attacked U.S. policy on human rights as an "anti-Soviet hobbyhorse." Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov said the SALT talks were threatened by tests of a neutron bomb that the U.S. announced last week and by America's "other inhuman weapons of mass annihilation." Of course, the Soviet people knew which way the wind was blowing. American High Jumper Teresa Smith, competing in a Soviet-American track meet, felt the chill in the Black Sea town of Sochi: "In Germany, we got applause even on our warmup jumps. Here, nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: Cold War? Nyet. But It's Getting Chilly | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...Parents" Committee of Greek Candidate-Students and Students in Italy staged a demonstration in front of the Greek foreign ministry. "Our kids were psychologically prepared for Italy," fumed Athens pharmacist Evangellos Roussos, president of the committee. "They not only studied Italian, but attended cultural courses. It's inhuman to do this to them." Other parents and students are flying to Italy to protest in person. "The timing of the ban came as a total and complete shock," says Albert Schrager, 54, whose nonprofit Italo-American Medical Education Foundation has for five years shepherded American medical students into Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Removing the Italian Welcome Mat | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...boxing would not be where it is without him. The sport badly needed Ali for his flamboyance and, more importantly, for his intelligence. In a rapidly advancing technological and intellectual age, boxing's barbarity made it assume an inhuman and primitive quality which ran counter to prevailing ideas...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Boxing Gets Up Off Canvas | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

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