Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plays that opened Canada's annual Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, last week-but not power for its own sake. The central figures in both works, one by George Bernard Shaw and the other by Henrik Ibsen, are secular Salvationists who dream of bettering mankind's lot. One thrives; the other is doomed...
...Aldo Moro has been pitilessly and horrifyingly slain. The beast who tried to cover the kidnaping with a political and ideological cloak failed to listen to the cry from the whole of mankind that this man be spared. With his death, barbarity seems to want to kill not a man, but thinking and intelligence and liberty. Yet while this death appalls and disturbs, it will never succeed in defeating us. In that way, a tragic error has been committed by these wretched heirs of the most barbarous assassins that mankind has known. " -Giovanni Leone, President of Italy, on television last...
...anxious to wash the dirty laundry of mankind with Holocaust [April 17], why doesn't it broadcast programs about the Armenians in Turkey, the Jews in Spain, the Huguenots in France...
...time passes, Caligula realizes that historical forces--not emperors--change mankind and that he too cannot escape fate, determinism, predestination. Caligula rebels against the Gods of fate. He tries, through murder and the systematic perversion of all values, to prove the liberty of his own will, challenging friendship and love, common human solidarity, good and evil. But one cannot destroy all without destroying oneself. Caligula is the story of a spectacular suicide...
WESTERN CIVILIZATION is burning, and its artists are fiddling away. They must put down their bows and start fighting anew the good fight, for morality, and for truth, lest darkness engulf mankind...