Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger tasks now confronting mankind, nationalism is obsolescent," Governor Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico asserted last night. Speaking before a sparse but enthusiastic audience in the first of three Godkin Lectures at Sanders Theatre, the Governor said that nationalism has produced a politics at variance with the realities of the world...
...ideal status, he indicated, would be a large, loose federal structure, or series of structures, such as the one that now links Puerto Rico and the United States. "The mind of mankind must get much more accustomed to the idea of a bigger federalism," Munoz said...
...great enemy of mankind today is nuclear power. Our finger is on the trigger all the time. The possibilities of destruction are measureless," the Governor asserted. "In the battle of nuclear power and man, nuclear energy has the upper hand." Nationalism is a danger because it is the means by which the nuclear power may be triggered, he added...
...walking the streets of the world, convinced that every man is his brother. "I guess that when I sing," he says, as if formulating his credo, "I am trying to reinforce some of the positive views I feel. As an incorrigible optimist, I am trying to confirm faith in mankind--and it's hard sometimes, reading what I do in the newspapers...
...speaks, Seeger's voice registers two distinctly different tones. When he reminisces about his life, or discusses the historical aspect of folk music, it is matter-of-fact. But whenever he talks of his concern for peace and understanding, or his faith in mankind, he seems to project himself onto the concert stage: his voice becomes resonant and sincere. He is like a universal lover pleading with the world to 'believe in me, for I speak the truth...