Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Perhaps. But absent a remarkable change in human nature, it seems unlikely the American multitudes, more concerned with "Survivor" and stock options than with the details of Al Gore's prescription drug plan, will suddenly bestir themselves, flip on CNN, and catch up on all the politics they have missed during our comfortable, decade-long Gilded Age. More likely, a sudden and artificially induced increase in voter turnout would only mean an increase in the number of ill-informed, poorly thought out and just plain stupid votes. To be blunt, most of the people who don't vote, shouldn...
...seen the clever full-page ads put out by investment banks, promising "dynamic and rewarding" careers upon graduation. And you might have been to a reception where this rhetoric is accompanied by platters of cheese and fruit (shrimp, too, if you're lucky). The lovely folks in Human Resources set the stage, and all you have to do is sign up for a part. The name of the play is, of course, "The Good Life...
Near the conclusion of Gore Vidal's Washington, D.C. (1967), a political thriller spanning the years 1937-52, the novel's hero, Peter Sanford, expresses irritable despair at the human condition as he has observed it in his treacherous hometown: "There was never a golden age. There will never be a golden age and it is sheer romance to think we can ever be other than what we are now." Now, 33 years later, Sanford pops up again as the protagonist of another Vidal novel, set in the same place and roughly the same time, and readers familiar with...
...Kofi Annan's conviction that the world community has to respond to genocide and human tragedies must become a global ethic." ROBERT E. GRIFFIN Forty Fort...
...England via trains and then boats. Why the Nazis did so remains something of a mystery, though surely the world's shocked response to Kristallnacht, when Hitler's thugs burned hundreds of synagogues in a single night, had something to do with it. They wished briefly to place a human face on National Socialism. Into the Arms of Strangers, an extraordinarily fine and understated documentary, written and directed by Jonathan Mark Harris, at last gives coherent voice to those who endured this remarkable experience...