Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything that Nehru has to say is listened to with respect and attention. This is partly because Jawaharlal Nehru, whatever his faults, is an impressive man and can be a charming one, but it is primarily because he speaks in the name of an otherwise largely silent segment of mankind-one-seventh of the human race...
This book makes Germany's losing war in the air seem like a poet-painter's vision of mankind in limbo. Only by literary license can The Last Squadron be called a novel. Using the pointillist method of French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, Author Gaiser puts his characters on paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly...
...that hope." Then, with tears in his eyes he moved into a peroration that the Senate knew was colored by the loss of his naval-aviator son in World War II. "If the free people of this globe lose confidence in us, we shall disappoint the best hopes of mankind−and we shall utterly fail to justify the sacrifices of our heroic dead, who have died in nearly all lands and have been swallowed up by the blue waters of nearly all oceans...
...authentic vocation. But why does he turn in disgust from the "practical" house, wife-and children-minded world of his "bourgeois" (no Marxist connotations) fellow man? For Wilson, Nijinsky summed it up in his diary when he wrote: "The whole life of my wife and of all mankind is death." To Nijinsky and his fellow Outsiders, the average man is drifting on a tide of trivia, self-deception, automatic, day-to-day actions that never reach any significant "level of intensity." Preoccupied with his seemingly orderly daily round, the average man loses touch with the supreme reality of death, according...
...Wilson. "You know what I think of Hoover. Turn him upside down, and he looks the same." As for the Roosevelts, Teddy "had the manners of a saloon bouncer and the soul of a stuck pig, and FDR is the synthesis of all the liars, scoundrels, and cheapskates of mankind...