Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ethiopia paid a high price for Il Duce's Caesarean pretensions. By the time British troops crushed the Italian invaders in 1941, 760,000 Ethiopians had been killed. Even so, Selassie ordered his people to treat the defeated Italians with "a sense of honor and a human heart...
...Knows. He had an invincible, perhaps sentimental belief that people could be wrong but not really bad, and that, in any event, it was not the place of one human to judge another. When some Catholic churchmen criticized Jacqueline Kennedy's marriage to the divorced Aristotle Onassis, it was Cushing who chided them. "Only God," he said, "knows who is a sinner...
...obtain exemptions on psychiatric grounds. "Draft evasion is a middle-class activity," says Dr. Peter La Valle, a San Francisco psychiatrist. "Poor people aren't allowed to be officially neurotic in this country." To eliminate this inequity, many physicians have started organizations like the Medical Committee for Human Rights, which has chapters serving youths in 30 cities across the country. Says Dr. Eli Messinger, a Manhattan psychiatrist who chairs the committee: "We feel that draft physicals are too rapid, and that as a consequence many illnesses are not detected...
...began feeling very sick and at length had to leave the theater. I know exactly what caused it too, even without having felt it before: sitting in the dark and looking at each formal event, each cultural artifact being presented to me on the screen, as a piece of human design whose significance had to be read. Presumably closer and closer viewing and speculation would reveal a more basic design-some corner of the way things work or perhaps the way people's minds work (there's always a confusion in bourgeois philosophizing about which...
...then I became aware that I didn't want to listen to anything either, especially sounds that I felt I had to interpret as though they held the same significance as speech. Then even smells began to get obnoxious. Everything before my conscious senses seemed to be a human artifact (which is exactly the pop-art sensibility) and an object of culture. It's against obsessive analysis that my senses revolted, imposing a total nausea on me. It's curious that, as Sartre noted, music didn't bother...