Word: inhumanity
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...Viet Nam war. "They're playing it big," sighed a U.S. official. Twice aired on Soviet television and displayed in Pravda, the self-proclaimed "patriotic deserters" were in Moscow in transit to a neutral country where they might "give all our strength to the struggle against the immoral, inhuman...
Olivier is malignantly and magnificently feral, dangerous precisely because he is a wounded animal clawing at the specter of death. One waits for the Olivier howl, and it comes-but not as the inhuman scream of the blinded Oedipus, or as his trumpet call to glory in Henry V: "God for Harry, England, and St. George!" In words charged with pain and hurtling toward frenzy, Olivier vengefully announces that he wants a divorce in order to "unite my destiny with that of a woman who together with devotion to her husband will also bring into this household youth...
...past hits established at best probability--more likely possibility, which is to say nothing. And that this man continued to overpower these situations, seven out of eight times--holding our religious feeling in hand, toying with it, and with another hit driving that feeling still higher--that was inhuman...
...reason for the rush was that New York State was trying to simplify things. In an attempt to modernize the most archaic divorce law in the U.S. (adultery only), the New York legislature last year rewrote the statute to include such flexible grounds as cruel and inhuman treatment and separation for two years. But having made divorce easier at home, it added a murky section that seemed to imply that quickie out-of-state divorces will no longer be recognized. The section will not take effect until Sept. 1, and the approaching deadline was what had everyone going south...
...rough in this bill!" shouted Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, during the debate. "Make no mistake about that. We intended to be rough, but we don't want to be inhuman." No one was likely to mistake him. To make sure that the relief rolls get no bigger, the bill will, among other things, simply freeze at last January's level the percentage of children-mostly Negroes-receiving federal money under the Aid to Families with De pendent Children program. To trim the number of adult welfare recipients, states 1) would...