Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasis on the resurrection was "an even greater difference. The Covenanters of Qumran were presumably still waiting for the Resurrection of their Master when they were swept away . . . But by then the basic elements of their faith had been given a far wider setting, and a significance for all mankind...
...Southeast Asia flashed a friendly grin as he skipped through the Distinguished Visitors Routine (TIME, Sept. 17), but the grin was full of ambiguity. At a mass meeting in Moscow, sandwiched between effusive compliments, was a message that must have sounded strange to propaganda-conditioned Russian ears. "Part of mankind doesn't know what the Soviet Union is," said Sukarno. "There are even some who say that the Soviet Union likes war, that the people of the Soviet Union are bent on aggression, that they want to threaten someone . . . I have been to other countries [e.g., the U.S. last...
...history as cyclical, recurrent, and hence irrelevant, while Christianity, Judaism and Islam see it governed by Intellect and Will, i.e., God. But in assigning history this divine importance, they "have reopened the door to self-centeredness by casting themselves, in rivalry with one another and ignoring the rest of Mankind, for the privileged role of being God's 'Chosen People...
...given by Him to those who help themselves; and the spiritual struggle in the more exclusive-minded Judaic half of the world to cure ourselves of our family infirmity [i.e., self-centeredness] seems likely to be the most crucial episode in the next chapter of the history of Mankind...
...shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," thundered William Jennings Bryan at the end of the peroration that won him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896. "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." In the most famed speech ever made in the U.S. on money, silver-tongued Bryan pounded home a 24-carat political fantasy: the bigger the money supply, the more for everyone. Bryan's particular panacea, a switch from gold to silver as the basis for an expanded currency, was discredited after his defeat by Republican William McKinley...