Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conditions at Willowbrook were not always like this; seven years ago they were even worse. When Dr. Jack Hammond, the present director, took over the institution in 1964, the patient population was up to 6,500. "It was both inhuman and unhealthy," says Hammond. "They were literally packed in here like cattle." To relieve the overcrowding, Hammond persuaded the state's department of mental hygiene to halt admissions except for special cases. But Hammond, with a budget of $33 million a year, has not been able to relieve Willowbrook's gross understaffing. In December 1970, the state imposed...
Secondly, they will not do the consciously inhuman things that conservative, self-consciously business-oriented administrations might. While their practice will inevitably full short of their preaching, liberal activists will at least preach many of the right things and begin, in a small way, to make the right kinds of human sentiment fashionable...
...further up the Charles, at MIT, Ellsberg has been consultant to Henry Kissinger '50 and director of the 1969 Rand Project for the development of alternative plans for Vietnam which were presented to the National Security Council. Still, he saw his energy and intellect employed for wasteful, immoral, and inhuman ends. For any figure now in power who helped foster the Vietnam catastrophe, this recognition is the first step towards liberation; in order to create a future, one must first face up to his past...
...create more mythology, or we can steal more truth. Resistance is no more than a daily responsibility, no more than the effort to make community life one's own. Blocking our resistance is the inertia of an alienating past and a society predicated on our submission to impersonal, frequently inhuman, authority. We have left Bobby and Eugene behind us; when we turn to each other is yet to be seen
...armed personnel by both sides, and the placement of observers along the borders. The proposal won eleven votes, with two abstentions (Britain and France) and two nays (the Soviet Union and Poland). It was the veto by the Soviet Union's Yakov Malik, who blamed "Pakistan's inhuman repression" for the conflict, that killed the measure...