Word: earth
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...times. All the great ages of theater have possessed a vaulting image of man, and an absorptive, undeviating concern with his destiny. "In apprehension, how like a god" is not casual Elizabethan rhetoric, but the supremely assured recognition that man is the noblest, grandest creature that walks the earth. And what does contemporary U.S. society say of the stature of man-how like a naked ape, how like an irrational id, how like a punch card in a computer? In the vertiginous distance between those views, one can read contemporary U.S. drama's petition in bankruptcy...
Moreover, this horrendous historical act by "White Devils" has, in the black racialist view of the Black Experience, endowed the Black man with a special aura of righteousness--that same righteousness indeed that has been applied to the oppressed and the wretched of the earth since the birth of Christianity. Of course, the typical black nationalist would not today attribute to Christian doctrine his view of the special righteousness accruing to the oppressed and despised Black Man. Yet it is one of the striking ironies of the black nationalist approach to the Black Experience that the Christian doctrine, now considered...
...believe. As a result of fossil-fuel burning, for example, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen about 14% since 1860. According to Ecologist Lamont C. Cole, man is thus reducing the rate of oxygen regeneration, and Cole envisions a crisis in which the amount of oxygen on earth might disastrously decline. Other scientists fret that rising carbon dioxide will prevent heat from escaping into space. They foresee a hotter earth that could melt the polar icecaps, raise oceans as much as 400 ft., and drown many cities. Still other scientists forecast a colder earth (the recent trend) because...
...lives, leaving behind the shining triumph of a love stronger than death. "Had I known how great their love was," says King Sigvor, covering his face with his hands ' in a rare display of emotion, "I would not have let them die for all the kingdoms of the earth...
...post-Victorian revolution-Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky. But they didn't matter at all. For in Cambridge, England, 24-year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become the most powerful extra-Establishment gang that England has seen in this century...