Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union of Wisconsin's Marquette University. "We like you to a Moses leading your people out of the wilderness," the Oneida chief said, as he crowned the old man with a war bonnet of bright feathers. "We rejoice in our hearts that we heard of your love for mankind, strong as the oak, and your fidelity, unchangeable as truth...
Historic Tasks. "Mankind is fortunate he said, "that the people of the U.S. recognize the historic tasks placed on their shoulders, namely, to be the guardian of freedom in the world . . . But I should like to say here, in all frankness, that I think the situation is very serious, and that for many years it has not been more difficult than it is now . . . Germany is immediately and directly in danger, bi you are also in danger, my dear friends over here in the U.S.A...
...death." Delp's greatest gratitude was that once he was able to slip out of his fetters so that he could say Mass with his hands completely free. The book ranges in spirit from the last message of the member of a Communist resistance group who said: "Mankind, I have loved you. Be vigilant," to the gentle prayers of a seaman, Kim Malthe-Bruun, who, the day after he had been tortured, wrote, "Suddenly I realized how incredibly strong I am. When the soul returned once more to the body, it was as if the jubilation of the whole...
...proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to Kafka to Orwell have found animals just as instructive. The latest to scan human nature in the visage of the beast is French Author Pierre Gascar whose Beasts and Men was published as two separate books in France, one of which (Les Betes) unprecedentedly won both the Prix Goncourt and Prix des Critiques awards in 1953. Very much in the Kafka tradition, Author Gascar has put together in these short stories as mordant and bone-chilling a set of circumstances as modern literature has had to offer since...
...Pocketful of Acorns. What that doom might be-a universal death for all mankind in a new war-Author Gascar hints at most movingly in his last and longest tale, The Season of the Dead. It is about the Nazi massacre of east European Jewry. The story is not new, but this is perhaps one of the rare times that a writer of fiction has taken it through the tunnel of horrors into the light...