Word: inhumanities
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Rosenblatt came under heavy criticism for his role as member of the Committee of Fifteen. His articulate defense of the Committee's actions as, essentially, reasonable human choices in an unreasonable, inhuman world won him a large moderate following...
...always been a favorite saint. Herbert Hoover was only slightly less villainous than Judas Iscariot. Now at least a few writers of the radical left are changing the text. In The Greening of America, Yale's Charles Reich argues that the New Deal helped create not only an inhuman corporate state but "a new consciousness that believed primarily in domination and the necessity for living under domination...
Stone decried the bellicose attitude of Senator Kennedy and vice-president Nixon which have "whipped up a lynch mob spirit" against Cuba. The "brutal, inhuman stereotypes" of Castro are wholly untrue and serve to poison not only international affairs but the existence of free government in the U.S., he asserted...
...woman has remained curiously dualistic. As German Catholic Scholar Hilda Graef has observed, the church's view of woman has tended either to be of her as mankind's temptress-Eve forever proffering the apple-or as a virginal mother figure. "She was placed on an inhuman pedestal," says Graef, "either in heaven or in hell...
...Constantinos A. Doxiadis is an oracle among planners. As proprietor of the multidisciplinary science of human settlements he calls Ekistics, he foresees the gradual evolution of "Ecumenopolis"-a world city formed by overlapping megalopolises. If present trends continue, he says, the world city will be a ghastly, inhuman place. Determined to head off such a bleak future, Doxiadis is trying to shape the growth of today's cities. He has just completed a fiveyear, $3,000,000 study of the 23,059-sq. mi. "Urban Detroit Area," sponsored by the Detroit Edison...