Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various forms (including Manichaeism) was one of the chief heresies fought by the early Christian church. Basic to all Gnostic sects was the belief that the world was evil, created by a bad god for the express purpose of imprisoning the divine spark which had somehow become vulnerable. Human beings who harbored some of this spark had secret knowledge (gnosis) and could be saved from the world trap by an emissary of the Divine whose mission was to gather up the scattered sparks and smuggle them out of the created universe to Paradise...
...frame, they were on hand at Cape Canaveral on July 16, when the countdown began for the firing of the finished missile. Just 5½ seconds after Juno II rose from her launching pad, she tilted crazily in flight and fell. "It came to be almost like a human being," reported Murrow's voice. "And then in 5½ seconds it was all over." After that, the successful firing of another Juno three months later was an anticlimax for the film. But from drawing board until a Juno actually got into orbit. Biography was a blunt and forceful epitaph...
...spends a third of each year in Europe, charges $3,000 to $8,000 a portrait. He once dabbled in abstract expressionism, now pooh-poohs it: "I consider myself the avant garde, because nobody sings the song of the upper level of society today. Nobody speaks of the exceptional human being...
...Kaiser bargained diligently. He called his settlement "noninflationary." To Edgar Kaiser the time seemed at hand to stop talking and get back to work. Says he: "We do not believe it's right to put people back to work under a court injunction. When you force things upon human beings, you simply make more trouble for yourself in the long run. We think a showdown with labor, an attempt to turn the clock back, will merely result in more Government control...
When Ulysses was published in 1922, it showed Joyce's matchless command of the English language and his finger on the tragicomic pulse of human life. If that life sometimes seemed tinged with an indefinable futility, it was because Joyce tried to construct a universe without God. In such a universe, superstition cast a spell. He saw coincidences as magic omens and tried to have all his books published on his birthday (Feb. 2). He wore a special ring to ward off blindness. He carried a picture of the 17th century Due de Joyeux (no kin) in his wallet...