The guiding assumptions of the most humane & progressive thought during almost 2 centuries of Socialist idealism & Amer.
Solti may keep a tight rein on his Chicago players, but he allows a stellar modern cast — including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, José van Dam, and René Pape — to bring an almost conversational nuance to Wagner's most humane and generous score.
It was simply the most humane option.
The tone of his comments was at once humane, almost folksy, somewhat politically radical, quite traditional and quite shocking.Failing to look after old folk was not just a bad habit, he told an "audience" of 20,000 people in Rome, it was a mortal transgression: in other words the sort of sin that can consign you to hell, eternal punishment, if you fail to repent for it before you die.
In the farm-to-fork chain, the McDonald's imprint is evident in almost every link: the humane treatment of animals, the development of high-tech processing equipment, ground-breaking food safety initiatives, the latest packaging materials, state-of-the-art distribution and storage capabilities, cutting-edge cooking techniques, and extensive employee training, to name a few advances (Petrak,2005).
Those of us who work at humane organizations, almost all of us, share our homes with more animals than anyone outside the field would think sane.
Almost as bizarre, though more humane, is a Saudi proposal to plant electronic chips in their bodies to track them after release.
Then there are the two victims of Joseph Birmingham, a house painter and a carpenter, who, through sheer persistence, finally broke through Cardinal Law's impenetrable shield and created a relationship with him, almost forcing him to a humane posture in their effort to save the church.
In The Muppet Christmas Carol, one wonderful paradox is that Michael Caine as Scrooge is almost the only real human on screen, while the film concerns itself with what makes us humane.
Only the topmost ones, out of reach, are intact, almost perfectly so — reminders of the humane sensitivity of the original design.
