Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date is uncertain), when a French aristocrat with an unlikely name, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce, and a Parisian scene-painter named Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre developed the professionally workable "daguerreotype." It was so successful that a French cartoon soon complained that half of mankind had become "daguerreocrazed," while the rest was "daguerreomazed."*Everything in sight was caught on the magic plates-Victor Hugo's hand, the moon, the 30th reunion of the Yale class of 1810, President John Quincy Adams (first U.S. President ever photographed). But already the revolt against realism had begun. A Swedish...
...that old egghead T. Jefferson had been possessed of her spirit, he would never have suggested to the frightened appeasers who adopted our Declaration of Independence that they include in it those weasel words: "With a decent regard for the opinions of mankind...
Sixty years later the copycat framers of the Texas Declaration of Independence got cold feet and inserted in that document a statement to the effect that "Nations are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind...
...believe in a moral law and those who do not . . . Good! Now let us go from here and resolve and eliminate the conflict. This, rather than "winning" [it], takes courage. The winner of a conflict is really only proving he is the stronger . . . The only real progress in mankind and greatness of men will be to fight to discover what is right rather than fight for what "is" right...
...this play, as in Shaw's Saint Joan, a great religious institution sets worldly aims against spiritual ones, and renews-in very human terms-one of mankind's great moral debates. But here, unfortunately, the whole thing was handled in the style of an old-fashioned debating society. Everyone struck attitudes, the simplest idea seemed clad in armor, there was something too declamatory for talk, yet too stiff for eloquence. High-minded and literate, the play came off a stately bore...