Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows a team of horses pulling a hearse through seas of blood. Atop the carriage sits a monster with a pack full of corpses; his snorting horses trample the world's culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors of modern war. Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector: a heroic Red peace partisan, with a peace dove shield. The other panel is Picasso's personal dream of peace, where anything is possible. Picasso's trees bear...
Many of the most alert minds in U.S. medicine were assembled in Atlantic City last week for a give & take on what's new. As usual, much that the researchers had delved for would not make much differ ence to ailing mankind for years to come. But a report to the American Society...
...reach the sky-28 feet from tiptoe to fingertip. Mestrovic calls the statue Man and Freedom, and into its graceful, classical pose he has poured the philosophy that guides him through his work. Says he: "Sculpture and art in general should contribute to human civilization, to human progress and mankind's spiritual development. In my opinion, 'abstract in art' is only another slogan. All great art must be expressed within the limits of form. As thought must be expressed in form, so the craftsmanship of 'the artist must be subjected to the discipline of honest workmanship...
Justice has been imagined by mankind in many different shapes. Could it be that her face is black or brown? That, at any rate, is the way she is likely to appear to the majority of the world's people, whose skins are colored. They are the people, in Asia and in Africa, whom the U.S. hopes to lead to democracy. They judge the U.S. very largely on evidence drawn from the "Negro problem." The U.S. has probably won more enemies by stories, true and false, about its treatment of Negroes than by any other propaganda; but many Negroes feel...
...humanity than the rest of the Occidentals . . . He investigates his faults, puts them on record, and shouts them from the housetops . . . America's handling of the Negro problem has been criticized most emphatically by white Americans . . . and the criticism . . . will not stop until America has completely reformed itself . . . Mankind is sick of fear and disbelief . . . If America in actual practice could show the world [that] the Negro became finally integrated into modern democracy, all mankind would be given faith again . . . and America would have spiritual power many times stronger than all her financial and military resources?the power...