Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think its potential is greater than you realize. Your assignment, should you decide to accept it, Bruce, will be to boil down your feature-length thriller to a tight, pulsating 49 minutes, then come up with 27 more just like it. Same basic plot on which the fate of mankind hangs. Same fascinating attention to visual gimmickry. We think we've got a world-capable series here. As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics, Desilu's president Lucille Ball will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This outer...
...best sequence is a short scene with Stokely Carmichael, whose cool is chilling as he smilingly maintains that mankind's only hope is for the colored races to smite the white devils like avenging angels. Later, a narrator weeps for Viet Nam-based U.S. soldiers, mostly of "Calvinistic background and Omaha upbringing," whose first sexual encounters are "almost certainly" homosexual in the fag bars of Saigon. (The U.S. has plenty of problems in Saigon, but the fag bar is not one of them...
Sister Marian Peter and I have been married. We could have gotten permission from Rome, but decided not to. We want the church to know that it is time that her hierarchy begin preaching and living the Gospel of Christ's love for all mankind, and forget their frantic defense of a legalistic system that has only served to alienate the clergy from the poor...
Make-Believe Alexander Pope must have been wrong, poor chap. The proper study of mankind is not man, but-in current fiction, at any rate-his phallus. Novelists are exploring ever more intimately, not to say enviously, the wondrous achievements of recognized bedroom supermen. In fact, everyone-heroes, authors, readers-seems to be getting rather exhausted. Perhaps that is why so many novels this season deal with sex in its most mechanized and dehumanized form. The dildo is the feature; everybody, apparently, uses an artificial penis, or else needs one badly...
Encounters with mass death are not new to mankind, and, indeed, Lifton draws comparisons between hibakusha and the survivors of the plagues of the Middle Ages. But, he says, the man-made holocausts of the 20th century have imposed a series of real and symbolic encounters with death on a scale so huge as to envelop people with a generalized psychic numbness...