Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These children deserve well of mankind ... RICHARD P. SAUNDERS...
...which, hints Novelist Musil, also seethe within millions of his fellow men. In his deluded fashion, Moosbrugger comes to think that "his whole life had been a battle for his rights." And Ulrich, though his exact opposite, feels a certain sympathy, even a sneaking identification, with Moosbrugger. "If mankind could dream collectively," he says, "it would dream Moosbrugger...
Brazil's Candido Portinari takes a more traditional approach to the subject. His sketch for the first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
...hoot for ideological content. But Picasso has again shamed and belied them." Party-liners are not likely to say the same of Portinari, who seems to be drifting out of the Communist orbit. His murals have "no party intention," he explains. "They are the point of view of mankind...
...Strange Deception, he sees the theme of his next picture as an expression of "how people . . . can reconstruct, outside of existing institutions and helped only by their own moral instinct and by their own experience of good and bad, their own moral life, to solve the main problems of mankind-those of justice and freedom...