Word: inhumanness
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...defines torture quite broadly as "an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," although this definition has been, challenged by various regimes, including the United Kingdom in reference to the accusations in Northern Ireland. However, even under this broad definition. Al takes a commendably strong stand against all forms of officially sanctioned brutality. Nor does the study exclude psychological or mental brutality from those practices it condemns. For this reason, Al censures the Soviet Union for its treatment of psychiatric prisoners, who are often political prisoners interned for "anti-social" acts. The use of drugs...
Proponents of the system argue that a state adoption agency's handling of an unwanted child often proves far more inhuman. Bureaucratic stalls and inefficiency can condemn a baby to foster homes and state institutions until the infant has outgrown any chance for placement with a family. Says Family Court Judge Mendel Rivers Jr. of Charleston: "Even if baby selling does exist, what's so horrible about that? If the child is going to a home with good parents who can give it all the love and security it will ever need, why should we care...
...players are to the ordinary turntable; they represent each point on the sonic spectrum with a series of numbers programmed into the machine. Synthesizers can go beyond standard intervals (the white and black keys of a piano) to register quarter tones and microtones. They can repeat complicated riffs with inhuman speed and accuracy, and approximate the sound of conventional instruments to the extent that unsophisticated listeners may have trouble distinguishing, say, between synthesized drums and the real thing...
...Soviets have the same desire to live as we do," McGovern said. "Russian mothers and fathers weep for their children and are not inhuman monsters...
...today. What happened to Lenell Geter [Dec. 26] is still occurring in many places outside Texas. Geter had to spend 16 months in prison before an uproar caused the people to back down enough to let him out. There is no way that he can be compensated for such inhuman treatment...