Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mathematics, philosophy, sociology, education. He formerly held a fellowship at Cambridge, but was deprived of it during the War for his writings against conscription, for which he was for a time imprisoned. He says of himself: "I like the sea, logic, theology, heraldry, the first two because they are inhuman, the others because they are absurd...
Considering the punch which Aristide Briand has placed aforetime into French denials of German requests for evacuation this was conciliation indeed. "Permit me to suggest," replied Dr. Stresemann smilingly, "that your troops could be spared the inhuman experience of a winter evacuation by leaving...
...eyes. In any case, the artist who considers the taste of the masses is a fool and is stultifying his own art. . . . In all beauty there is an element of strangeness, of unfamiliarity, which ordinary, non-creative people find alarming. . . . In my Night there is a touch of the inhuman. That is appropriate to the vast, vague idea of night. You could not personify such an idea by an ordinary pretty human figure...
...capital punishment, Harvard concentrated on the plea that the severe penalty does not justify itself by preventing homicide. J. H. Swigert '30, introducing his case, made a strong historical appeal which branded the death penalty a survival of the primeval instinct of revenge and accordingly reprehensible. It is "inhuman and cruel," was his premise; and it "closes the door of justice in case of possible error...
...American people want the truth. Here it is. We are trying to free Mexico from the odious and inhuman tyranny of the dictator who has made robots of the President, the Cabinet and other creations out of his bag of tricks...