Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother & Mankind. Walter Pater tried to pierce her veils with a poetic sigh: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times . . . and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands...
...along in a clear, scholarly style, Gamow develops the universe from a primordial, exploding "something" to the currently popular, expanding, gravitationally unstable dust cloud. Then follows the accepted course through local condensations to the bare, rocky planets circling--about their central suns, and thence, by devious organic evolution, to mankind...
Gloomily Mill went on to urge individuality in all walks of life, warning that unless it were encouraged individual freedom would vanish. "Mankind," he warned, "speedily becomes unable to conceive diversity, when it has been for some time unaccustomed...
...impressive fund of miscellaneous information ("When Queen Victoria became a Knight of the Garter, she had it put on her arm, not her leg"). He first showed his debunking talents in his 1946 book, The Natural History of Nonsense, which shied irreverent rocks at some of mankind's most venerable myths. Before Down You Go, Evans made trial TV runs on several local shows, recalls that one of them was so bad it was watched "only by members of my immediate family." But last week he realized that his adenoidal high-pitched voice has finally become recognized...
...world," he says, "has suddenly become missionary-minded. The two great missionary movements which campaign for mankind are Communism and Christianity." U.S. director of the Pontifical...