Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflation, suppress bandits and warlords, rehabilitate industry and the transportation network, equalize food distribution, establish a tax system and bring the people rudimentary health care. For the first time in anyone's memory, an efficient, honest administration was in charge-though it could also be ruthless and even inhuman in its desire to impose unity on the land. By 1952, Mao had used persuasion and purge to consolidate his power, and China was ready to transform its economy...
Terrence McNally, another funny playwright, is the author of the second half of the bill. Next . His brief opus is the story of a 48-year-old man who is mistakenly called in for an induction physical. The physical, conducted by an inhuman army nurse, reduces the man, an already sad individual, to a totally demoralized lump of soggy flesh...
...Grand Kabuki illuminates the paradox in the Japanese character, an outward decorum of almost inhuman restraint masking an inner fury of almost demonic feelings. Out of this tension the Japanese fashioned the peculiar beauty of their drama, rather like the Greeks, whose tragedies distilled the moral of "nothing in excess" from a people capable of nothing but excess...
...locked up inside all day long." Elizabeth Debray was denied an audience with Bolivia's President Salinas to discuss better treatment for her husband. "I fear," Debray told his wife, "that we will all be transferred to a place in the middle of the jungle where conditions are inhuman...
Finally, for those whose frustrations cannot be expunged by small, subtle victories, Matusow proposes direct confrontation-attacking the inhuman enemy with the most human of weapons: "Women going into a room with a bank of computers are advised to wear a lot of the cheapest perfume they can find." Computers operate effectively only in "clean" air, Matusow explains, and are highly sensitive to environmental changes. Heavy dollops of perfume could paralyze a computer as effectively as they do those of a weak-kneed human office worker...