Word: inhumanity
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...Inhuman Necessities. Jeremiah enters Kentucky politics as a "Reliefer," feels uneasy about the underhanded tactics of his party, but is caught up in a web from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...
REFLECTIONS 59 on the Aisle Manhattan has the world's most inhuman subways, some of its most hopelessly snarled traffic and, in the public bars, its most relentless television sets; it also has some of the world's best music and drama. For four years, U.N. staff members have been exposed to the blessings as well as to the curses of their international capital. Last week,the New York Herald Tribune's Peter Kihss set out to discover how they like Manhattan culture...
...comedy is based on man's delight in man's inhumanity to man" wrote Capp. "I have made 40 million people laugh more or less every day for 16 years (on that formula)." The only way to top this was to carry man's inhumanity to man "to its ultimate absurdity-namely the inhumanity of men other men have been inhuman to," the cruelly of the victim who victimizes somebody else. People who laugh at this are not "heartless wretches," wrote Capp, but "normal human beings, full of self-doubt . . . full of a desperate need...
...there were no marks on him. The prosecutor began to read from Father Kalojera's "confession." The priest interrupted: "With your tortures, I didn't know what I was saying." The judge slammed his gavel. "How dare you suggest that our forces of security would descend to inhuman methods?" Father Kalojera replied: "They put electric wires in my mouth and down my throat, and then switched on the current...
Then the shock treatment begins to pay off, first in bombing results, gradually in grudging admiration for Savage, finally in the esprit de corps that he has been driving for. But as the group's record vindicates the general's inhuman regime, his own humanity betrays him into physical collapse...