Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if Mr. Charles Mortimer [Dec. 7] and his "factory maids" have given any thought to how mankind should eventually be reincarnated: canned, frozen, made from ready-mix or just plain "cold and serve"? G. E. HASSE...
...narrowed them to three-presumably because of the three gifts they brought. As far back as the and century, the church assigned symbolical meaning to the gifts: gold for Christ's kingship, frankincense for his priesthood, and healing myrrh for his suffering and his role as physician to mankind. The Wise Men, or Magi, may have been members of an occult school in Media and Persia that specialized in astrology. No one knows how or when tradition turned them into kings and gave them names and ages. Caspar, King of Tarsus, was often represented as a beardless youth...
When Pandora opened the box and loosed upon mankind all the evil gifts of the malevolent Greek pantheon, by Hesiod's account "Hope was the only spirit that stayed there . . . and could not fly forth." According to Kansas' famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, hope has stayed there, cowering and crouching, too much of the time from Hesiod's day until now. To this fact, as much as to the evils of "selfishness, vengefulness, hate, greed, cruelty, destructiveness and even self-destructiveness," which Pandora released, Dr. Menninger lays many of mankind's troubles...
...WORLD of swift economic transformation and growth must also be a world of law. The time has come for mankind to make the role of law in international affairs as normal as it is now in domestic affairs...
...spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling atmosphere...