Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jencks, in his review of Harry Levin's Contexts of Criticism, made some perceptive criticisms of the validity of the academic approach to literature; however, Mr. Jencks has drawn some remarkable moral conclusions from his aesthetic arguments. Mr. Levin, it seems, has committed a "sin" against mankind in pursuing his career in his particular fashion...
...breed one work that wakes." Mr. Jencks' fundamental error, I believe, was in allowing an aesthetic criticism of the proundity of Mr. Levin's method of literary analysis to develop into a moral issue denouncing withdrawl into the world of words as a sin of deprivation against mankind. Far from sinning, the men of words produce perhaps one of the greater goods to be found in this world. They create a world of beauty and intensity, to escape from that world which neither wants them, heeds them, nor can benefit from them. One will no doubt accuse them of fiddling...
Scott, an authority on trusts, received the $1,000 Ledlie Prize for the individual at the University who has "made the most valuable contribution to science, or to the benefit of mankind" for his "Treatise on Trusts," published...
...coming departure: "I lost my father and all my property in the A-bomb attack, but I have, through Mr. Fotouhi's profound character, come to feel that his remaining here is desired not only for the sake of the U.S. but for the welfare of mankind...
...Goat for Azazel is Vardis Fisher's ninth novel in his twelve-volume Testament of Man series, a fictional portrayal of the historical development of the consciousness of mankind...