Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...other news, the City Council officially endorsed the efforts of Amnesty International, a group working for the release of prisoners of conscience, and formed a sub-committee to write letters to city governments accused of human rights violations...
...councilors--Thomas Danehy and Walter Sullivan--voted present on the measure, because, in the words of Danehy, "They're not doing enough for the people in Northern Ireland." A third--Saundra Graham--backed the bill only after she was assured the group investigated human rights violations in this country as well as foreign lands...
...Amnesty International staffer, Josh Rubinstein, told the councilors that they might be able to persuade city officials around the world to cease human rights violations and plead the cases of city officials held as political prisoners...
...vagueness: under its provisions, for example, the CRR can judge whether a student has shown "gave disrespect for the dignity of others" and expel him on that subjective basis. The University is far more likely to use the CRR to punish political demonstrators of the future than to uphold human dignity...
Citing the Holyoke Center promenade and the low-scale face of the Science Center, both of which are "designed to generate street activity," Louis J. Bakanowsky, professor of Architecture, said yesterday that Sert's work stresses "the shape of the city consistent with the high quality of human life...