Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Riesman's brilliant account of evolution of mankind into "other-directeds" [TIME, Sept. 27] is perhaps the reason and cause for the super-mediocrity of most people, most jobs, most professions, even most autonomous...
...human beings, hitherto, there has always been a point at which the worm has turned. Even when we have made all allowance for the application of new psychological techniques in the service of tyranny, past experience seems to make it unlikely that human tyrants will ever succeed in taking mankind right out of history, so long as human life-and, with it, Man's mulish nature-continues to survive on Earth...
...Nehru went northward to pay his court. As the leader of the world's second biggest nation (350 million), Nehru would call on Mao Tse-tung, the leader of the world's largest (600 million). With Russia, the third largest (210 million), they comprised nearly half of mankind. The significance was not lost on Nehru. His visit was a "world event in a historic sense," said he grandly, "one of the biggest events of the year and of the decade. All other things are trivial...
...future policy, Dr. Stuart believes the U.S. should help Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa. Says he: "I devoutly hope that, both on moral grounds and on political grounds, both for its own good and for the good of all mankind, the U.S. will continue in its refusal to recognize China's People's Government' . . . will be firm in its opposition to action calculated to strengthen that government...
...most terrible wars in history have had any lesson for mankind, it is that a treaty is often worth no more than the paper it fills. Yet today, world peace is more dependent on these pieces of paper than ever before. They bind the United States, for instance, to all of Latin America, most of Europe, and a good part of Asia. In the next few days, study groups of professionals and dedicated amateurs will meet all over the country to pull land haw at the biggest, and also the flimsiest, of the documents--the Charter of the United Nations...