Word: inhumanness
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...forms we'd go on to a greater and happier time," he said. The optimism had declined, as it was discovered that science and democracy held potentials for evil as well as good, he commented, "Now, we've come almost to the point of developing a new set of inhuman or sub-human values...
Packaged and Shipped. Perhaps it will all begin with a simple and foreseeable act of God-say a heavy snowstorm in New York City. There, last week, at the world's largest international airport, the scenario came true. Even at its best, an airport terminal seems inhuman-a monstrous machine disguised as a building and designed to process people and baggage. To the machine, there is no difference between men, women, children, suitcases, pets. All are collected, screened according to route, classified by status, divided into units of the right size, packaged in aircraft-and shipped. When 17 inches...
...piece of reporting and dramatic journalistic writing, Silence on Monte Sole is a professional success. Yet after the hundreds of dramatic reconstructions of the inhuman acts of World War II-acts whose memory is kept fresh by the knowledge of continuing inhumanity-the value of the genre itself is in doubt. The past 25 years have conclusively demonstrated that no reconstruction of human suffering, no matter how skillfully or compassionately done, can compare with the unadorned voices of the survivors, who, in autobiography and war-crimes testimony, told of their times in words born of the most painful silences...
...accepted as a precedent, free 45 remaining former Nazi judges and prosecutors from prosecution. Oske insisted that Rehse and his seven fellow judges on Freisler's dreaded Volksgerichtshof did not deliberately subvert the law as then applicable. Thus, while the sentences in which Rehse participated were "inhuman as seen today, in times of war no nation and no state can get along with normal means of defense. Germany was in a life-and-death struggle...
Moonlight is a realist. Moonlight hates capitalism and its politicians and its extensions into facism and its wars. "But I have already told you that property is murder." Moonlight does not like communism either. But Moonlight isn't even a humane anarchist. Benevolence is inhuman, like Whitman "wanting to paw over everybody." Moonlight directs his sexuality and his hate. Moonlight is an activist...