Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beach ball passed over the world's continents and oceans one day last week. As it circled the globe for the first time, traveling at 18.000 m.p.h., the U.S. was blissfully unaware that a new era in history had begun, opening a bright new chapter in mankind's conquest of the natural environment and a grim new chapter in the cold...
...Marxist protagonists of "political realism," Kolakowski retorts: "Your values change drastically every day, and every day they are proclaimed eternal. This is the worst kind of relativism of values, for it buries historical thinking as well as the immutable and lasting achievements of mankind...
Ricardo Montalban, as Koli, fills the role, but with nothing special. He has one good song, a Calypso mockery of mankind called "Monkey in a Mango Tree." Josephine Premice, as the opportunistic second-to-most-eligible female around, is first rate, especially in "Leave the Atom Alone," an amusing try by the show's authors to be socially significant. Ossie Davis does well as her occasional beau, Erik Rhodes as the exaggerated British governor of the island, Augustine as a lovable urchin, and Adelaide Hall as a homey, cloud-reading sage...
...Visit with Pablo Casals (Irving M. Lesser). Great men, the Duc de Saint-Simon is said to have remarked, are God's means of revealing himself to the rest of mankind. In this matter-of-fact little picture the truth of the statement can be felt with disturbing force...
...lobbyists with short-sighted Congressional legislators made it impossible for the President and the State Department to get pleas for larger and more flexible Foreign Aid funds. Eisenhower has noted that "one third of all mankind" was awakening to wants and potentialities. The importance of guiding the rising restlessness and energies of underdeveloped peoples into democratic channels of progress could not be overemphasized, for either humanitarian or security reasons. If the national leaders of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are not successful in leading their people into the twentieth century they will be replaced...