Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said: "The world has set its face hopefully toward our democracy, and. oh my fellow citizens, each one of you carries on your shoulders the burden of doing well for the sake of your own country and of seeing that this nation does well for the sake of mankind...
...lives of nations," cried Nasser in a burst of emotional oratory, "there are generations ordained and solely chosen by destiny to witness decisive turning points in the history of mankind. This generation of Egyptians is one of those generations ordained by fate to live great moments of transition, moments that are like the pageant of the sunrise. We have witnessed the dawn of our independence, the dawn of our freedom, the rebirth of our pride and dignity, of our strength, of our hopes for a happy society. And today we live a new and glorious dawn, for the dawn...
...countries have come close to achieving in the laboratory the energy-releasing atomic fusion that produces the radiance of the sun-the same fusion that, man-made but uncontrolled, provides the vast destructive might of H-bombs (see SCIENCE). Wrapped up in the scientific terminology was the prospect that mankind will one day be able to live in a world where power, the basic ingredient of an industrial civilization, will be unlimited...
...hope that other scientists in other countries will be encouraged by their governments to do similar research. As these and other experiments continue, the adoption of a worldwide atoms-for-peace program becomes more inevitable to permit all scientists to devote their skills and energies to the betterment of mankind-not its destruction...
...play behind it. Too many earlier scenes were flattish, too much writing was prosy; nowhere did 17 years leap out in a sudden glance, or a lifetime emerge in a comment. The play makes soberly clear the sad human arithmetic that twice two is four, and that mankind would make it five. What is beyond it is the magical creative arithmetic that can raise things to a higher power...