Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Individual memory and memory of mankind figure in the images. Mirko's titles are mythical, Biblical, and concerned with ritual. He looks for "another dimension," a way to evoke a total, rather than merely an intellectual response in the viewer." Abstract form is the common denominator," Mirko said...
Snow doubts that mankind will make these efforts. Already, he noted, men recoil in horror from the spectacle of famine in India or Biafra, but do little. "We draw the curtains and take care not to listen to anything which is going on in the streets outside," he said. "We are behaving as though we were in a state of siege." Even if man's quantitative needs can somehow be met, Snow doubts that the quality of civilized life can be maintained if-as demographers widely predict-world population doubles to more than 6 billion...
They did, that is, until last week. Then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Arkansas law prohibiting public school teaching of "the theory that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals" is clearly unconstitutional. That ruling should put an end to the issue in Mississippi as well...
...other side. I feel that I've got to keep up the premiums, just in case. Second, I still feel that the church has a tremendous capacity to do good, if it can only orient itself to this era of history. It could be a positive factor in mankind's quest for survival. That's why I'm a little more patient with what seems at times to be a 13th century operation...
...Unlike many socialists, Silone cares less for the transitory causes and effects of history than for the preservation of the human values that he believes are part of "our paleo-Christian heritage." In essence, he says, "this consists of the permanent validity of certain moral values designed to rescue mankind's communal living from the laws of the jungle." Though the statement slides over the instinctual courtesies that wild animals extend to one another, Silone clearly believes that man is the animal fated to strive for perfection. Perfection is objectified in ideals, and to Silone the ideal of communal...