Word: humankind
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...need to leave some mark on the world that proves, in even the smallest way, that we were once here, is hardly unique to the modern world. One can say with only slight exaggeration that it has been the central preoccupation of humankind. On some fundamental level we all want to do something to recreate our own existence in terms more permanent than life. Some carve their names into the stall walls of bathrooms or into the rafters of buildings. “Brooks was here?...
...Meanwhile, the West was developing what Hanson calls "the only economic system that works, a rationalist tradition that alone allows material and technological progress, the sole political structure that ensures the freedom of the individual, (and) a system of ethics and a religion that brings out the best in humankind...
...profile Holocaust dramas (ABC's Anne Frank, NBC's Uprising), an understated movie about a meeting in which Hitler's lieutenants planned the Final Solution outdid them all. Not a shot was fired, but the cool bureaucratese with which these officials rationalized mass murder showed how language can be humankind's most insidious weapon...
...this production, I regretted my wasted youth for not having devoted my entire life to the stage. It moved me to tears: some for the tragedies played out so beautifully, and the rest out of joy and gratitude that Zimmerman allowed me to experience this gracious summation of humankind in such a stirring and elemental form. MARY BETH PATTERSON Mountain View, Calif...
...production, with a rumored $300 million budget and a juicy Christmas release for the films over a period of three years. With no major stars (does anyone remember Elijah Wood?) and a premise that is decidedly unfriendly to the box office, the studio is relying on the fact that humankind has become quite familiar with the story that invented the fantasy genre. Think Star Wars: Episode 1 with a better cast and a better director, and you might come close to realizing the hype behind this one. An absolute must...