Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police finally caught up with him on Christmas Eve 1941, put him in Pretoria jail. There he spoke only German (his English is perfect), aped Hitler's appearance, gave the Nazi salute, declared: "God sent Adolf Hitler to save Germany and all oppressed mankind." He said he intended to give South Africans the benefit of his trained leadership "after the war has ended in the inevitable Axis victory...
...Skin of Our Teeth (by Thornton Wilder; produced by Michael Myerberg). In Our Town Thornton Wilder abolished space and expanded Main Street into the universe. In The Skin of Our Teeth he has annihilated time and turned the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J. into the story of mankind. But where Our Town, despite its reckless stagecraft, was a warm and human allegory nourished with cracker-barrel wisdom, The Skin of Our Teeth is a cockeyed and impudent vaudeville littered with asides and swarming with premeditated anachronisms. Dinosaurs collide with bingo; the Muses jostle the microphone...
Already a center of controversy, Wilder's jumbled resume of man's history should mystify only those who worry their heads over hidden meanings instead of adjusting their imaginations to spectacular stagecraft. Perfectly clear, too, is Wilder's optimistic conclusion that mankind, for all its bad luck and narrow escapes, is indestructible...
...last June Dr. Robertson began studying the effect of glycol vapor on monkeys imported from the University of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine. So far, after many months' exposure to the vapor, the monkeys are happy and fatter than ever. Dr. Robertson does not expect mankind to live, like his monkeys, continuously in an atmosphere of glycol vapor; but it should be most valuable in such crowded places as schools and theaters, where most respiratory diseases are picked...
...Wrath of God. Agar practices what he has often told the U.S. press: "The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." Like an early Father of the Church, Agar believes that Hitler and the other great malefactors of mankind are sent by Providence to punish people who have betrayed their spiritual heritage. The standard-bearers of democratic civilization failed to live up to their own standards. If they want to survive, they must practice what they preach...