Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northwestern (1939) and an ex-Air Force navigator, is a practicing poet and a frustrated novelist ("I think my trouble is that I read too much Thomas Wolfe too young"). His show is conceived as a TV illustration of Alexander Pope's line: "The proper study of mankind is man." The shows he is proudest of: an evocation of the love poems of Emily Dickinson, a ripsnorting Moby Dick, a song-and-dance recreation of The Ballad of John Brown. Camera Three is so far above the class of most commercial evening shows that with only a fraction...
Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners is not really a play, nor even a dramatic poem. It may perhaps best be described as a confusing verbal exercise in philosophy. The English playwright apparently set out to describe the state of mankind in a world at war, with man represented by four prisoners locked up in an unused church. Instead of presenting his ideas--which say pretty much that "no man is an island"--through a conventional plot, Fry approaches his theme through the dreams of the captives. Each of the dreams is based on a Biblical story, but despite...
Franklin embodied the Enlightenment, and in mankind's memory that age has been often degraded by its heirs. But Franklin, in his special way, combined the Enlightenment with American lightning. That was his achievement-and that is why he still makes remarkably good reading...
...Korea ended two and a half years ago. Collective security has been powerfully strengthened. Our defenses have been reinforced at sharply reduced costs. Programs to expand world trade and to harness the atom for the betterment of mankind have been car ried forward. Our economy has been freed from governmental wage and price controls. Inflation has been halted; the cost of living stabilized...
...contemptuous treatment of the happily married couple, those who have "other interests" to fill their waking hours, admits no such thing as love, the highest ideal of mankind, the only real stability in a world so transient and insecure as is ours, only screaming responsibility. These couples are just too stupid to be other than doggedly faithful. This is certainly most depressing to a young woman seriously contemplating marriage...