Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chapter 1934 of the great visitors book which men call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
...essence tragic. His unwillingness to partake of struggle, his profound hatred of violence prevented him from taking sides when all of Europe was madly partisan. Both parties wanted his support but he could not give himself up to partisanship, for his ideal was utterly sixteenth century humanistic--all of mankind was to be united in the common aim of betterment through knowledge, reason, and a belief in man's ability to progress. No longer could a retiring scholar take the lead; the stage was set for violent partisan action. Luther took the lead in the drama and the procession...
...21st Century historians will record-so every true Fascist believes-that it was Benito Mussolini who gave to mankind in the 20th Century a new and better kind of state: the Corporative State...
...convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature...
...generation that is sated with the old order, hungry for the new chaos. Poet Robinson writes on the assumption that the proper study of the poet is the inner man, and in his poems he soliloquizes with sad coherence on the tangled emotional morals of a static mankind. Poets Auden and Spender are fiercely, often incoherently impatient of all that. Poet Robinson is a calm skeptic; they, passionate disbelievers. More satirical, less serious a poet than Spender, Auden half-fills his book with prose patches: a mock oration, an airman's journal, geometrical figures, a parody litany. Most observable...