Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Defense of Equality" attacks arch-neo-conservative Irving Kristol's attempt to justify large-income inequalities as the natural product of a hierarchy of innate abilities. For Walzer, the moral claim to the products of society cannot depend on some specious ground of superior ability, but on specific human qualities and needs...
...Worker's Control." Walzer deceptively renews the time-honored social-contract tradition to state his theory justifying socialism in modern America. Just as an entrepreneur cannot own a city or stake claim to its political governance, neither should he be entitled to corporate ownership; economic enterprise, like political, involves human relations and cooperation that cannot be possessed by any group of individuals. His argument here is intriguing, but not really convincing, and a bit myopic. He conveniently ignores the emergence of a modern managerial class and bureaucratic power--although he devotes a great deal of attention to this in other...
...served as a dour keynote for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that convened in the Spanish capital last week. The object of the long-scheduled conference was to review the members' compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on military security, economic cooperation and human rights. But throughout, it was clear that the Soviets had every intention of blocking any proceedings devoted to their own human rights record or their Afghanistan invasion...
...EDNA'S POWERS fail her about 30 per cent of the time," which is to say, she's only human. Earthy, even. She swears, makes dirty jokes, and has a healthy sex drive. As Edna puts it-"I'm not the Holy Ghost and I'm hardly the Virgin Mary." Edna's father agrees. "You're nothin' but trash," he says, referring to her relationship with...
Carlino considers the movie an expression of the healing power of the love of human beings for one another. He stresses the human level and tries to bring the movie down to earth, so to speak. While the movie offers a hope of an afterlife, then, its message concerns life, in which, to paraphrase Schopenhauer, every illness gives a foretaste of death, every getting better again a foretaste of the resurrection...