Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book are interesting," she says. "The Prime Minister of Ghana asked me to lecture to the students at the University soon after Ghana achieved its independence in 1957. I attempted to explain that the experiences of Ghana, such as colonialism and industrialism, were part of the common experience of mankind. The book is pretty much the same as those lectures, only transcribed into readable English...
Shahn concluded with a plea to artists to put mankind back into art. "Society needs more than anything else to be reminded that man is, in himself, ultimate value. It needs to be reminded that neither the pressure of events nor the exigencies of diplomacy can warrant the final debasement of man. Art is neither use, nor appointed task; but given human compulsions, some intellectual stature and great competence, it can perhaps bring man back into focus as being of supreme importance...
...cave's limestone floor proved disappointingly bare of treasures-which is what boys naturally expect to find in caves-but the walls, in the eye of their flashlight, swarmed with strange painted beasts. Some 20,000 years old, the pictures were almost perfectly preserved. They had found mankind's oldest shrine, painted by Cro-Magnon...
...smallest detail, the fuzzy thinking and factual vagueness of its uneducated audience. Yet, Johnson believes, the professorial crowd managed to justify its concession to television as a sort of moral compensation" for the national ignorance. In the absence of anyone else, the professor rallied to the salvation of mankind and assumed the role of the Expert. If he found in Jack Benny an odd bedfellow, the academic could clearly see his responsibility to compensate...
Ceramics, one of mankind's first arts, is having a renaissance after a century-long decline. Begun when a handful of ceramists retreated to their studios in self-conscious revolt against the standardization of machine-tooled objects, the renaissance is now in full swing from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to London's Chelsea, with thousands of potters pumping their wheels and smudging their smocks as they "throw" the wet spinning clay. One of the most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows...