Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children, it would not be the latter. However, I confess to being excited about the moon landing. I would have felt the same had it been Russia or Red China. It's the first time in my life I've seen the possibility of a reprieve for mankind...
...selfish these days and so in love with ourselves and our causes-myself included. It seems to me that we've needed something bigger than all of us for some time now to put mankind in the right perspective. I would not say, "If we can put men on the moon, why can't we build adequate housing or feed all our citizens?" I would ask, "Why can't the trip to the moon and exploration of space inspire us to see social injustices, our cruel war, and our long and foolish fight with nature...
...closely related animals coexist without devouring one another. He is a quietist. "I tend to concentrate on things where I can be uniquely effective," he says, and his theoretical work in limnology has greatly aided the practical work of water-pollution control. Unlike some alarmist ecologists, Hutchinson thinks that mankind will survive its excesses. "But the cost to the satisfactions of life will be enormous. There is already a reaction to overcrowding in the cities-riots. The fact that people can't sit in a garden, watch birds around them-this is the real source of difficulty. We need...
...Armstrong's request, it is amending the record of his first words on the moon. Armstrong explained that the article "a" had apparently been lost in transmission back to earth. Thus his statement should read: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." The change reflected the humility of the first mortal to reach the moon...
From John Stuart Mill to John Maynard Keynes, economists, as well as authors and politicians, have cherished such a Utopian vision of the abundant life. The millennium, it was always assumed, would arrive when full employment combined with high productivity to supply mankind with everything it needed, as well as the leisure time to enjoy it. If any problem existed, it would be finding enough to do. But things are not working out that way. So, at least, argues Staffan Burenstam Linder, 38, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics who has taught at Yale and Columbia. He states...