Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lesson from Lincoln. "Mankind hungers for peace," he told the publishers. "This universal hunger must be satisfied. Either the nations will build a cooperative peace, or, one by one, they will be forced to accept an imposed peace, now sought by the Communist powers as it was by Hitler." Free men can have such a peace, he said, only if they will cooperate: "It is not a question of turning the press, radio, television and newsreels into media of sugar-coated propaganda, 'selling' America to the Frenchman, France to the German, and Britain to the American...
...Harry Morrison's real love is the heavy, earth-moving work of basic construction. The industry is booming and construction men hope happily that they will never quite catch up with mankind's pressing needs...
...philosopher at 63, when most academicians are thinking of retirement. "The vitality of thought is in adventure," Whitehead told Price. "That is what I have been saying all my life, and I have said little else . . . One of my anxieties . . . has been *lest a rigid system be imposed on mankind and that fragile quality, his capacity for novel ideas, for novel aspects of old ideas, be frozen and he go on century after century . . . until he and his society reach the static level of the insects . . . You may have wondered at my coolness, not to John Dewey personally...
...reworked this play, adding and swerving more and more from his intended plot, for ten years up until his death last November. Because of the scope of his drama, Thomas would probably never have been through polishing and revising. In Under Milk Wood, he is telling of all mankind, and it is his favorite story...
...beliefs on which we have founded our form of government and our hope of a better world are under attack . . . The defense of mankind against these attacks lies in the faith we profess-the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Men and women who have this faith will refuse to bow to force. They will refuse to worship the power of the state. They will refuse to set their own nation and their own group above criticism. For they understand that above all these works of men there is the eternal standard of God by which we shall...