Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again these days when you have gone cosmic and claim to know all the answers . . . Keep them guessing, Pegler. Don't groove your stuff so that they can figure you for unions Monday. La Boca* Tuesday, civil rights Wednesday, and your message to mankind Thursday...
...losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell...
...moment in history when, under God, this nation of ours has become the mightiest temporal power and the mightiest spiritual force on earth. The destiny of mankind-the making of a world that will be fit for our children to live in-hangs in the balance...
...handsome eulogy. Braz observes to himself that the government bonds he willed the speaker have undoubtedly oiled his tongue. How truly famous he might have been, he reflects, if he had ever completed his great cure-all-the Braz Cubas "anti-melancholy" plaster-to relieve the despondency of mankind...
...masculine psyche, represented concretely in images ranging from Helen of Troy to the modern pin-up girl), the "animus" (corresponding male image, in the female psyche), the "great earth mother" (representing the material aspects of nature), the "wise old man" (personification of the spiritual principle, i.e., God). If all mankind dreamed more or less alike in its legends and religious symbols, it was reasonable to suppose the existence of a universal unconscious mind-a vast reservoir of wisdom from which these dreams arose. Jung termed this reservoir the "collective unconscious," thereby adding a new dimension to the Freudian psyche...