Word: humankind
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Mankind would never have got anywhere without outwitting or overpowering the natural order of things. Early humans invented the arts of agriculture and livestock management to free themselves from dependency on the uncertain bounty of nature. Crucial differences between things devised by humankind and those that issue from Mother Nature often get blurred in the cause of merchandising...
...disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been added to the new edition of the thesaurus, right after "biased, twisted, jaundiced." Women are no longer listed as a sub-category of mankind but of humankind. And among the exemplars of "excellence," "superman" has been joined by "wonderwoman...
Ideologically and temperamentally, Green is a pessimist who echoes Freud's fundamentally tragic view: humankind's animal instincts limit the realization of its ideals. Such a bleak belief is, of course, a wellspring of humor. Freud did not promise a rose garden, only that the aim of treatment was "transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Green informs and amuses Malcolm with seriocomic tales about the infantile needs of himself and other psychoanalysts: their sharp clothes, boring talk of summer real estate, erotic entanglements with patients and strivings for position and prestige. Green's own analysis...
...talking about weapons that could kill all humankind," Graham said...
...boring as a subject of fiction. Is it possible that the very weakness that makes the human species difficult if not evil is the main thing that makes it interesting? If so, that is scarcely the only contradiction in the human drama. Alas, one may, plausibly enough, wonder whether humankind, if it had remained in Eden, might not have perished of ennui. -Frank Trippett