Word: inhumanities
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...Abourezk have denounced the U.S. support of Thieu's police, and Senator Alan Cranston told TIME: "AID is continuing to bolster a cruel and repressive police apparatus in South Viet Nam. A vast surveillance system is in effect, aided by U.S. communications equipment and personnel. Police torture and inhuman jail conditions, including the notorious tiger cages, await those who criticize the government's policies. That the American taxpayer should subsidize torture is an outrage...
...discern a "parsonic personality" among those who choose the church in the first place-persons afflicted with a "guilt-neurosis syndrome," who try to be "omnipotent and omnicompetent, on the one hand, and all-loving and all-lovable on the other." When a clergyman fails to achieve such inhuman perfection, Eadie notes, the results range from simple depression to compulsive sexual fantasies...
...sure enough, most Harvard students learn to accept the disinterest as a show of faith, as some demonstration that Harvard, the great inhuman institution, believes its sons will voluntarily join the elite...
...does. O Lucky Man!, now on view across the U.S. (TIME, June 18), presents the audience with visions of itself as it might be seen in fun-house mirrors, reality reflected as grotesque fantasy: Big Business in blue suits calmly watching a colleague throw himself from a skyscraper window; Inhuman Science manipulating evolution by transplanting a man's head onto the heaving hulk of a hairy hog. Critics have called the film everything from "heartbreakingly perceptive" to "a laborious, sophomoric...
...Jane Seymour, Gloria Hendry and Madeline Smith are comely enough but curiously sexless sex objects. They, like Moore, suffer a sort of weightlessness, a lack of humanness, which is what Sean Connery as 007 lent previous Bond adventures. The raunchy adolescent humor that helped audiences giggle past the ugly inhuman stuff in previous Bond films like Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever is rare and surprisingly inept. The vehicular chases that have proved commercially successful in other films are here rendered five times, which is four more than any movie needs. Setting aside an allright speedboat spectacular over land and water...