Word: inhumanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could not insure that the leaders she nurtured and inspired would do good work in the world. Harvard men figured prominently in the conversion of enthusiasm to immoral horror that was the Salem witch trials, and students now-shivering in the same wood-paneled common rooms, watching the same inhuman blustery gusts of a Cambridge winter--may not have that much trouble imagining why The Crucible rings true...
...carve a moral niche in the rotting bark of 20th-century civilization. Nicholson's important films involve religion of the self; he acts as he sees fit, spiting society, family, and his hollow "responsibilities" to each. Their characters are not merely selfish--they seek fun, truth, and escape from inhuman constrictions. What was once vice is now virtue, as long as one is animal enough to adhere to his cause...
...forth, up and down Cambridge Street or Mass Ave. It doesn't require a lot of brains, which is why few professors will ever take it up. But there are other jobs, and there is this thought--better not to use any brains than to use them to some inhuman...
...homosexual (James Coco) and a wealthy woman desperately afraid of aging (Joan Hackett). They are all self-pitiers and nonstop talkers, mostly in a manner that might be called show-biz fizz, a stylization that works all right for Simon onstage, but seems on the naturalistic screen an inhuman strain. This is especially so since most of his zingers are not as funny as the writer thinks they are and distinctly not worth the body English the players put on them. They're always winding up as if they were about to deliver a high, hard one, only...
...Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, five records). Wagner's last and most difficult music drama has not had a really satisfying recording-until now. Hofmann makes Parsifal both strong and guileless, the splendid Van Dam is an anguished Amfortas, and Nimsgern is an evil, but not inhuman Klingsor. Only Vejzovic, a screechy Kundry, is weak. The real stars are Karajan and his Berliners, who capture the score's glowing spirituality and black magic in a luminous performance...