Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nerve-ends of emotion, in the mysterious ferments of art which transform experience, he was a great mind-there has been no greater in American literature." DeVoto notes the almost Shakespearean abundance of life that floods Mark Twain's two greatest books-the "authority over the imagination of mankind" which gives them their strong mythical enchantment. Nevertheless, some readers may find it hard to agree that Huckleberry Finn is "as dark a book as Moby Dick" still harder to agree that its bitterest lines-Huck's meditation on slavery-excel the best of Jonathan Swift. But discerning critics...
...want to destroy forever the mechanical organization of mankind, such as the enemy has achieved in contempt of all religion, morals and charity. We want the age-old French ideal of liberty, equality and fraternity...
...giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...
...only an integral part of the University but is also an important cog in the country's entire educational machinery. The very materials of the Museum are necessary to that purpose and successful in so far as they clearly exhibit the steps in the growth and multiplicity of mankind and in the evolution of material cultures. Orderly arrangement, adequate description, easy accessibility are stages to that clearness. And the progress of thought in these matters only goes when a man is given time and means to sit down with a handful of bones or a tray of pottery until...
...Cowles, a graduate M.D. of 62, with great faith in the suggestibility of mankind, started his clinic, known originally as the Body & Soul, in 1923 in connection with Manhattan's famous church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. Six years later, Actress Jeanne Eagels died in his Park Avenue sanitarium, of an overdose of heroin. By 1932, after Dr. Cowles had treated several thousand patients in St. Mark's, the vestrymen told Dr. Cowles to clear out. This action was approved by Bishop William T. Manning...