Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That delight in line continued. But after World War II, Aalto abandoned crisp functionalism-"inhuman dandy-purism," he called it. His freestanding works became more complicated and took on steadily more mysterious, evocative forms (TIME, Aug. 25). His grand public structures-most notably Finlandia House, Helsinki's conference and concert center-stir an exhilarating sense of place and occasion. Aalto's town halls, designed for Seinäjoki, Säynätsalo and other small Finnish cities, use light and space to create a kind of civic intimacy. No concept was too large for his attention...
...hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group...
...year to about 50 a month recently. More than half of those arrested in the past several months have been released. The government has also promised to discuss civil liberties soon with a working group from the Human Rights Commission, whose report cited Chile's secret police for "inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment" of political dissidents...
...future, to bring bad trouble to people who, in my past association with them, were completely innocent of any talk or any action that was disloyal or subversive ... to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions...
...pains at the beginning of his latest film to assure his audience that the events they are seeing are real. The rest of the film is so austere and exemplary that it's hard to believe the truth can be so simple; Adele's passion is so inhuman that it seems to cry out for the reenactment of an affidavit to its reality...