Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study them. It was important to get things straight, for this was the new catechism of Communism, to be echoed in a thousand Communist speeches and editorials. Thus Stalin got his reserved seat in the hierarchy of Red saints ("beside the greatest men in the history of mankind-Marx, Engels and Lenin"), and was singled out, in inflexible Red nomenclature, as the "inspired continuer of Lenin's will...
...whose mark still lies heavily upon the social sciences, set up a system of three states of knowledge; in his Third Realm, called positivism, the scientists would take over "the general direction of this world." Intellectuals who advanced the world toward perfection would achieve immortality in the memory of mankind. Providence was the "Great Being," not God, but a personification of humanity. (A great and in some ways typical 20th century positivist was H. G. Wells, who believed that man was progressing through science to Utopia; Wells's last years, like Comte's, were spent in near-despair...
...recognize dangers to their existence when they develop, but such dangers will not be met by appropriate actions in the world of reality. They will rather be met by magic operations in the dream world, such as disapproval, moral condemnation, declarations of intention, resolutions, appeals to the opinion of mankind, branding of enemies as aggressors, outlawing of war, propaganda for world peace and world government...
...death house at Sing Sing, Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel listened intently as the special news bulletin came in over the prison radio: President Eisenhower, after due deliberation, refused to commute their death sentences. The two convicted atom spies were guilty of a hideous crime against mankind, the President said, and they must atone for it with their lives; their crime of giving atomic and other secrets of the first magnitude to Russia "involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation, and could very well result in the death of many, many thousands of innocent citizens...
...Invention of Woman. As Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's major disciple and friend, Author de Beauvoir deplores the fact that much of mankind draws spiritual nourishment from myth, religion, legend and unthinking optimism. Man, argues the existentialist, must be more than a mere passive "being." He must be an "existent," i.e., one who boldly accepts the mortality of body & soul but nonetheless resolves to pit his courage (his only weapon) against the cruel reality of life & death...