Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern mankind is Mrs. Chirk. That is the thesis which British Novelist Nigel Dennis, a contributing editor of TIME brilliantly defends in one of the funniest most penetrating novels since the early Aldous Huxley. Once upon a time (perhaps in grandfather's day), says Author Dennis in effect, a man's Self was his castle. There might be an occasional siege of sin, and the drawbridge to the outer world might get tangled in confusion, but the Self itself stood fast. It was kept in place (like Bishop Berkeley's tree in the quad...
Instead, he crusaded for One World, which he claimed to have conceived before Willkie, came to the U.S. to lecture on world government. He also gave a lot of thought to the cow. "Mankind cannot exist with out the abolition of cow slaughter," he proclaimed and founded the Cow Protection League...
...sooner it is recognized by all as such, the sooner it will disappear. It is the problem of how are we to convince the "white supremacy" racists that the conclusions of common sense, the principles of Judean-Christian ethic, and the consensus of the vast majority of mankind all point to the fact that there is no superior race and that all men are essentially the same...
...Masque of Mercy by Robert Frost It is several years since The Short War, when the H-bombs knocked the world to chaos. Mankind has by now figured out how to prevent war and even to outwit death; that is, The Company has figured it out. With its globe-circling arm of Underwriters, Actuaries, Claim Adjusters, Regional Directors and Expediters, The Company has figured out almost everything. Blue Plate Policy coupons provide for food; Blue Blanket coverage takes care of shelter, clothing and babies; the Blue Bolt "war and disaster complex of policies" insures against all misfortune-all except...
Even the most distinguished presentation of the week, NBC's two-hour-long production of the ANTA revival of The Skin of Our Teeth, was in some measure a sales pitch for mankind in general. Concocted for the theater when the iconoscope was still a gadget little known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin...