Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanations which Wilson's Sociobiology provides for racism, fascism, and war are unscientific at best and dangerous at worst. The inhuman acts carried out by racists in Germany, South Africa, and the U.S. have been answered by heroic anti-racist and anti-fascist resistance. Where there were Nazis, there were partisans; where there is apartheid, there is massive rebellion, where there has been the Klan, ROAR, and the war in Indochina there has been the civil rights movement, CAR, and the anti-war movement...
...even within the bounds of satire, the movie nonetheless has the power of a frightening revelation (TIME, Nov. 29). Like the Frank Capra films of the '30s and '40s (particularly Meet John Doe), it is half entertainment and half message, a populist plea for the individual against inhuman institutions. But unlike the movies of those optimistic days, there is no happy ending...
Huschle, the representative for Kenya to the Human Rights Committee, said the committee passed resolutions condemning religious intolerance and inhuman punishment of Chilean political prisoners yesterday. Huschle said she thinks an upcoming resolution condemning apartheid will pass easily...
...being a protesting citizen of Germany when atrocities were going on," he says. Only by grasping the "enormity of the offense" and of the pressure on the young, Fallows adds, can you understand why what everyone did then--on both sides--was "so extreme and so unreasonable...sounded harsh, inhuman, bitter and wrong and cruel...irrational...
...Partie de Plaisir. Nothing pleasant here, but rather Claude Chabrol's story of two unwed partners who play around on the side, driving the male in this hip arrangement to show his true chauvanist, possessive, jealous and increasingly inhuman colors. We cautioned you about the cruel commentary on the new morality in Alpha-Beta last week, but at least the outcome of that romantic fiasco stayed pretty much up in the air. The wind-up here is far less ambiguous: this Mr. Machismo stomps his liberated and true love's face in with his bootheel. Subtle, Chabrol, subtle...