Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he said "the death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure." He went on: "And egotism has no part in the great adventure. It is the humble and modest man who is the vanguard of those who would bring light and understanding to mankind...
...offered no new ideas as to how the war might be ended. Nonetheless, he concluded his formal speech with a ringing declaration of optimism: "I do not say to you that tomorrow there will be peace. I say to you, though, that we are moving faster towards peace than mankind has ever moved before...
Today U.S. education is still trudging along on its sentimental journey. It has not only become stereotyped through its neglect of disciplines ("One might say we have improved on Pope: 'The proper study of mankind is mannikins' "), it has also substituted means for ends and perverted the study of man into the study of "the Behavior of Man as a Social Animal." The key word in school and society is now "welfare," and the general belief is that students "are to be taught the functions of modern society and how to function in it." Says Gordon Chalmers...
...some of his novels Waugh has got around his problem by succumbing wholly either to ferocity (as in The Loved One) or heartburn (as in A Handful of Dust). More often, he has kept his anger uppermost and merely hinted at a grumpy sympathy with mankind. But in Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7, 1946), he made his first major effort to express fully both sides of his divided self-to give poison only where poison was due, to cool boiling oil with holy water...
Dirty Snowdrops. Crowley insisted that in all his acts he was directed by "The Secret Chiefs," i.e., the top brass of the spirit world. These chummy spooks now informed him that "a New Epoch had begun for mankind and that Aleister Crowley had been chosen to initiate it." Crowley took orders from the Egyptian god Horus, with his wife (now known as Ouarda the Seer) acting as interpreter. The Book of the Law (the bible of the New Epoch) was then dictated...