Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's hopes for the future: a sound "world economy" binding together a "world community of free nations, characterized by peace and by justice." Within mankind's reach, said he, is "a free, rich, peaceful future, in which all peoples' can achieve ever-rising levels of human well-being...
Almost without exception, responsible Western economists recognize that to deny that Red China is growing economically would be selfdelusion. At a fearful price in oppression and human suffering, the Chinese Communists have, as Chou En-lai claims, made "earthshaking changes" in the Chinese economy in the last decade. But faced with the phantasmagoric nonsense emerging from Peking last week, even those Westerners most ready to be impressed by Chinese Communist accomplishments could do nothing but shrug: "Here we go again...
...study last year of the behavior of Puerto Ricans in six Catholic parishes in New York," Fitzpatrick reported. "I found that 25% of all the Puerto Rican marriages involved people of noticeably different shades of color. It is my own hope that they will make explicit the principles of human brotherhood, of universal respect for men and women, that have been implicit in their culture. If they do they will have brought a priceless contribution to the life of the mainland...
...psychic phenomena at a haunted house in a grubby small town. Author Jackson, a self-confessed dabbler in magic, sets her scene with professional care. The big old house is a crazily built warren of odd rooms and twisting corridors. For 80 years it has witnessed a variety of human disasters, and now it is deserted by its owners; the caretaking couple refuse to stay beyond 6 in the evening, and the townspeople go surly when it is even mentioned...
...desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that "the recital of his love affairs is monotonous and reveals a mind that was superficial and almost inhuman." Casanova was all too human, and his far-from-superficial mind recorded in the Memoirs an incomparable picture of 18th century life, ranging from jail to royal court, from theater to church...