Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Christmas, said the President, "the drums of war are still. In their silence, after a whole generation of almost ceaseless beating, many people, already become fathers and mothers, enjoy the first peaceful Christmas they have known. Mankind's unquenchable hope for peace burns brighter than for many years." That hope was blemished by physical and mental tyranny in much of the world. Said the President: "Even at this happy season we dare not forget crimes against justice, denial of mercy, violation of human dignity. To forget is to condone and to provoke new outrage...
...Americans who agree with me in objecting to your interpretation of his statement "I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances." A man who so keenly feels his responsibility to mankind is certainly not to be condemned for his desire for more independence...
...youth get that way? "It is not youth alone that has succumbed to psychopathy, but nations, populations-indeed, the whole of mankind. The world, in short, has run amuck." And how did the world get that way? Dr. Lindner answers that one of the major factors producing psychopathy is damage to the ego. He sees a loss of individuality and consequent damage to the ego in the 20th century's mass political movements, social and industrial giants, wars and economic upheavals. "From loss of identity has come insecurity, and this has bred the soul-destroying plague we know...
...navigation to those who may feel the need of them. At his infrequent but embarrassing worst, he plays the Whitman-cum-Thomas Wolfe of the skyways: "I winnow the meager facts, seeking to construct truth only from the clean kernels. I am a human lodestone-the homing pigeon of mankind." The Book-of-the-Month Club judges have un-cooped him for December...
...start of the twentieth century, according to Friedrich, both the bourgeoisie and the socialist and communist reformers believed that their respective philosophies, combined with technological improvements, could bring happiness to most of mankind. "But the bourgeoisie and the socialists have now had their chance, and are disillusioned," he said...