Word: inhumanities
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...wall for the thousands of my fellow white South Africans who will no doubt read it. Perhaps the greatest tragedy in South Africa is that there are so many sensible white South Africans who turn a deliberately blind eye to one of history's saddest, most inhuman situations...
...This Inhuman Clay. Caro is amply qualified to pioneer the engineer's esthetic in art. Son of a stockbroker, he took an engineering degree at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1944, then studied art for six years, mostly at the Royal Academy Schools, before serving a two-year apprenticeship under Henry Moore. Not until 1957 did he have a one-man show in London of savage figurative bronzes, which drove a critic to gasp, "One almost wishes them back into clay." Caro gave up modeling in clay as "lifeless." A trip to the U.S. opened his eyebeams...
...Dissent. Koningsberger found the people looking well fed and clothed. Shops seemed well stocked; there was no "atmosphere of scarcity," despite contradictory evidence of rationed rice and cloth. No "blue ants slaving away" -except for the familiar "drag coolies" hauling inhuman loads of coal and pig iron. No beggars anywhere, no flies even on manure heaps. The countryside appeared to be the immemorial land of the peasant-few motor highways, trucks or tractors but plenty of human feet treadling water wheels. Soldiers with guns nowhere to be seen. In short, "the daily comings and goings of the people look terribly...
Tragic & Unnecessary. It was the kind of demagoguery that Buddhist zealots understood. Only a few hours later in Saigon, Laywoman Ho Thi Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary...
...voters watched over TV for the first time, the blue-shirted lawmakers enacted a new divorce code that broadened even the old adultery provision: it classifies sodomy and a homosexual act by either spouse as adultery. In addition, New Yorkers may now divorce on four new grounds: cruel and inhuman treatment, abandonment for two years, imprisonment of one of the spouses for three consecutive years, and living apart for two years after a formal separation agreement or decree...