Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Howe points out that men have, too, and in the same way: as members of disadvantaged classes rather than as members of one sex or the other. Moreover, "males may have been 'masters' and females 'chattels,' but this is perhaps the only such relationship in human history where the 'masters' sent themselves and their sons to die in wars while trying to spare their 'chattels...
Howe has nothing but scorn for the Millett assertion that only men have human work to do. Asks he: "Is the poor bastard writing soap jingles performing a 'human' task morally or psychologically superior to what his wife does at home, where she can at least reach toward an uncontaminated relationship with her own child...
...evening begins with a documentary tape. A voice announces that on April 8, 1966, a piece of a human body was found on a railway car in France. Other pieces were found but never the head. By analyzing railway intersections, the Paris police discovered that all of the trains involved passed under the same bridge in the small commune of Viorne near Paris. A housewife in the district, Claire Amelie Lannes, 51, was confronted by detectives and at once confessed to the murder of her deaf-and-dumb cousin and housekeeper. In point of fact, A Place Without Doors...
...house." This is rather like the killer in Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, who murdered his victim because he could not stand his clouded blue eye. With power and wonder, both Poe and Duras show us that an act may be most distinctively human and lifelike precisely because it is logically motiveless...
...driven around the stadium track. An ecumenical procession, including Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists, bore an array of gifts -among them a copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism's universality. "Jesus Christ shared our human condition, making himself a part of the world of his time," Paul reminded his listeners. "In the same way, the Christian is no stranger among his own people. He shares all their honorable customs...