Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemporary world. It has had its affect in many quarters; the novel, the drama, biography, history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature as a physical world is being to some extent replaced by an emphasis upon the study of human nature...
Based on the greediness of mankind, the plot of the play is woven about a rich man's bequest to a group of avaricious relatives, and provides many amusing and interesting situations. The Liberal Club has bought out the house for the second Boston performance of this play and is now selling tickets at the Harvard Cooperative Society with no advance in prices...
...accompanying picture shows John Law turning the wheel from which Damo Fortune showers her gifts over all mankind. Other pictures show him as Atlas supporting the world, or as Don Quixote tilting at the windmills, or as monopolizing the winds...
They heard a symphony which has for its scope the story of the development of America, the definition of its powers. "O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come...
...simple process of keeping a reminiscent journal for six months, "that c'toonist" has told his neighbors, who for him include all mankind, how life has been with him; whom he has known, what he has seen, read, heard, thought...