Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to Christopher Columbus in 1500. In the closing days of 1968, all mankind could exult in the vision of a new universe. For all its upheavals and frustrations, the year would be remembered to the end of time for the dazzling skills and Promethean daring that sent mortals around the moon. It would be celebrated as the year in which men saw at first hand their little earth entire, a remote, blue-brown sphere hovering like a migrant bird in the hostile night of space...
...Year: the American. In his agony may be seen the greatness of his idealism, and if in his efforts to make this ideal a reality he often blunders, fails, fosters dislocation and uncertainty, he merely shares in a perplexity as old, and as common, as mankind. It is his willingness to persist that makes him uncommon. Let it be the greatest hope of all of us that his courage never fails...
Utopia is not a republic of fraternity to be taken by violence. Neither can it be taken by men who have no vision of better things for mankind...
...Swiss Reformed pastor, Barth studied theology at the University of Berlin under Church Historian Adolf von Harnack. Perhaps the greatest of Protestant liberals, Harnack stressed the importance of Jesus as a supreme ethical teacher more than as God's son, and Christianity as the culmination of mankind's spiritual aspirations. World War I destroyed Barth's faith in secular optimism; he was also appalled that his teachers supported the war policy of Kaiser Wilhelm. While serving as a pastor of a Reformed church in the Swiss village of Safenwill, Barth returned to the close study of Scripture...
...necessarily have to accept the naked answers Vonnegut gives us to our unasked questions. For example, the meaning of the civilization of mankind is five sentences; those five sentences don't describe the meaning--they are the meaning of civilization. But if we accept Vonnegut's world to work with, it gives us something all put together so we can see how everything relates to each other...