Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal to almost everyone and to offend hardly anyone, so much so that it provoked Washington Post's left-wing Democratic Cartoonist Herblock into one of the season's sharpest needlings of G.O.P. generalities (see cut). Among Ike's points: ¶ "The ultimate values of mankind are spiritual. These values include liberty, human dignity, opportunity, and equal rights and justice." ¶ "More jobs and better jobs, a flourishing agriculture, happier living for every family, peace and plenty for all people−these call for a strong, growing, private-enterprise economy." ¶ "To stay free we must stay...
...single decade the nationalist wave in Asia and Africa has created sixteen newly independent nations, with a total population of more than 700 million people, one third of mankind...
Liberal democracy, the ultimate triumph of which Western leaders since the seventeenth century have taken for granted, is thus mortally challenged by a new social and political order that bids persuasively for the favor of mankind with dynamic new techniques of education, ideology, and technology...
...invisible monster who leaves footprints like those of a colossal tree sloth, and is completely invulnerable to any kind of atomic attack. Accused by the commander, Morbius reveals his secret: Altair was once inhabited by a race of creatures, the Krell, whose technology was a million years ahead of mankind's. They vanished mysteriously, in a single night, even as they realized their greatest achievement: a civilization without instrumentalities, force without form, spirit without substance. They became, in a word, gods. Or did they? On paper, the answer to this question would seem to nix the picture...
...mighty toll upon their lives, but in the end it binds them together, wracked by pity and fear. Young Edmund's hopeless citation of Nietzsche, "God is dead: of His pity for man hath God died," is forgotten. O'Neill has forgiven the Tyrones as we must forgive all mankind...