Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Ambassador Andrew Young and his friends in the Eastern intellectual Establishment begin to raise as much hell about present inhuman conditions for young blacks in our own country, and only then will I buy their sincerity about being concerned for the rights of blacks in South Africa. Economic and political conditions for blacks in South Africa are more humane than in most of the black-ruled states of that continent...
Several months ago, President Carter indicated that human rights would finally become an important criterion in American foreign policy, yet the United States has made no move to dissociate itself from the inhuman Marcos regime in the Philippines. If the Carter administration is serious about human rights in other nations, it should reconsider its position with regard to the Philippines...
...abstract, but in reality they twist people into hideous shapes. Night-Side seems to be an indictment of philosophers on behalf of ordinary people. But in that case, why doesn't Oates show any sympathy for all these ordinary, tortured people? Although she describes her characters with inhuman intelligence. Oates never shows the slightest hint of compassion for them. Her identification of existential despair and mental illness is not so much a psychological observation as a justification for her own misanthropy...
...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...
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...