Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sometimes the professor with his bone becomes almost as dangerous as a dog with his bone. And the dog at least does not deduce a theory from it, proving that mankind is going to the dogs-or that it came from them...
...restricts this function too narrowly. In propagating learning, the university also asserts allegiance to a set of universal ideas which aim to benefit all mankind. If this allegiance conflicts with the specific goals of a particular society, political tension naturally results between the university and society. To take the obvious example: the university (radicals and college presidents together) is usually regarded by the Nixon Administration as the focus of domestic opposition to the Vietnam War. This opposition has had some effect in reshaping policy and seems worth maintaining...
There is little if any hope that euphemisms will ever be excised from mankind's endless struggle with words that, as T. S. Eliot lamented, bend, break and crack under pressure. For one thing, certain kinds of everyday euphemisms have proved their psychological necessity. The uncertain morale of an awkward teen-ager may be momentarily buoyed if he thinks of himself as being afflicted by facial "blemishes" rather than "pimples." The label "For motion discomfort" that airlines place on paper containers undoubtedly helps the squeamish passenger keep control of his stomach in bumpy weather better than if they were...
...desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a hairy, six-legged, doublejawed grasshopper whose behavior has been exasperation and puzzling mankind ever since his appearance in Exodus as one of the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt by a wrathful Jehovah. Much of the time he is a normal grasshopper, evenly dispersed and foraging alone. Then suddenly, and at unpredictable intervals, he turns into a mob, blackening the skies like a tornado...
...might happen when it is man's turn to explore other worlds, possibly to encounter life forms both inferior and superior to his own. One chilling short novel published in 1954, Lester del Rey's For I Am a Jealous People, told of a future in which mankind comes up against an ambitious race of conquerors with whom God has made a new Covenant-against earth men. Ray Bradbury's story of "The Fire Balloons" in The Illustrated Man tells of a gentler encounter, when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover spheres of blue fire that...