Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...importance of considering the problems of the University as a whole. Harvard, he said, is exploring the edges of the expanding frontiers of knowledge "not perfectly, but creditably," and he felt that in fulfilling this role, Harvard is doing its part to preserve the freedom and safety of mankind...
...sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest-but his only Oscar came with A Double Life in 1947. The narrator's role in The Story of Mankind (1957) completed his list of more than 100 film credits...
...produced by unskilled labor -and by people who like their work so well." To Dr. Simons, first man to have so long and clear a view of untwinkling stars, it is a matter of man's destiny: "This is one of the greatest challenges that has ever faced mankind -an external challenge, to conquer our environment...
...revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations would stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence...
...theists. As Christianity comprises far more than theism, so Humanism, although based upon the naturalistic outlook of agnosticism and atheism, extends far beyond that premise. Humanism assimilates the spirit and substance of modern science and democracy, and incorporates the dynamic aspects of our civilization. In its concern for mankind, it equals, if indeed it does not surpass, the highest ethical level which any traditional religion has yet reached...