Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beast." said the local court in the dispassionate tones of bewigged British justice, "appears to be a human being who has been brought up to kill on the orders of those in charge of him, and to kill with bestial ferocity. While employed in its inhuman task, the creature disguises itself in the skin of a lion, or partly in lion skins and partly in baboon skins...
...along. T.T. is back in the center of his absurd universe, and the bribes fly back from the terrified recipients. Thus Novelist Grinioff extracts ribald comedy from his central theme: under tyrannous government, humanity exists in the corruption of its officials. It is human crookedness that can best the inhuman game...
...Richardson affair seemed to poison the whole atmosphere of the campus. Lecturer-Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox-Bow Incident) resigned in protest; other scholars charged Stout with everything from "favoritism" to "inhuman and capricious treatment," and last spring the American Association of University Professors censured the administration for violation of academic freedom and tenure. By that time, the Nevada legislature had gone out after Stout...
...Oman fled on a donkey before the victorious troops of the British-backed Sultan of Muscat and Oman, eleven Arab states asked the U.N. Security Council to take up Britain's "armed aggression" in Oman, and Moscow joined in with a fevered blast against Britain's "inhuman methods of warfare against the peaceful population of Oman." Sir Harold Caccia, Britain's ambassador to Washington, called on John Foster Dulles to warn him that unless the U.S. supported Britain on Oman, it would be "almost as much a blow as Suez...
...Pack of Janitors. 1957's S.F. rests on a much frailer human base. Most of its stories explore the fantastic world of outer space with characters of a type unknown today-inhuman humans subject to telepathy, telekinesis, multiple personality, and an infinite capacity for shifting to and fro in spacetime. As characters, they are deader than the planets they visit; as explorers, they are about as intrepid as a pack of apartment-house janitors. Samples...