Word: inhumanness
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Fritz Zorn is a pseudonym, chosen spitefully and well. In German, Zorn means anger. This rancorous testament is the work of a sensitive mind slowly unhinged, a desolate howl against the inhuman condition. It is a sound familiar to doctors. Occasionally, if the writer is skilled enough, laymen can hear it. In Mars even the whispers are deafening. -By Richard Stengel
...hint at layers of meaning that will keep scholars guessing for decades. His works will probably last: Lolita is already available in an annotated critical edition. Still, there is something missing in all of Nabokov's work. His starchy aestheticism comes through as cold, crystalline, and almost inhuman. We wait in vain for that warm human glow that pervades all the works of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. And his work lacks the psychological or emotional depth that might have compensated for the limited range of characters and situations. Nabokov must have been a fiery lecturer, but somehow...
...adjective, of video games conceals a destructive end. The player filling in the screen with colored boxes must ultimately succumb to the loneliness of electronic immolation. Video games create artless heroism. The heroes born with the plink of a quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here; the top ten scores are erased each week. No Walter Mitty could emerge from this stultifying fantasy world. As Stendhal said, "One can acquire everything in solitude except character...
...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...
...West. To break down that wall by an action compelling enough to attract world attention, the Soviet Union's most celebrated dissident went on a hunger strike last week. The world-renowned physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize said that he was protesting the inhuman treatment given his daughter-in-law, Yelizaveta (Liza) Alexeyeva, 26, by Soviet authorities...