Word: mankind
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...safeguards, and less amenable to organized control. It is not in the exclusive control of a few governments, but rather in the hands of hundreds of millions of individual parents. The population threat must be faced-like the nuclear threat-for what it inevitably is: a central determinant of mankind's future, one requiring far more attention than it is presently receiving...
...Waugh was an Establishment of one. His genius, self-knowledge and frequent self-loathing set him apart. Roman Catholicism, to which he converted in 1930, provided an intellectual and ritual framework for his deeply pessimistic view of his institutions and attachments, indeed of all mankind. It was the classical view of lost Eden -of damnation without God's grace-that could lead Waugh at the height of his fame and good fortunes to ask, "Why am I not at ease? Why is it I smell all the time wherever I turn the reek of the Displaced Persons' Camp...
...novel showing it to be false. Authors who try generally find themselves accused of going soft, of frivolously aping the Pollyanna fadeouts of popular schlock. To counter such charges, Fowles fills Daniel Martin with plenty of reasons for contemporary despair: war, poverty, tyrannies of the body and mind, mankind's apparent inability to do anything about problems except augment them. His hero tries "to discover what had gone wrong, not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century; the unique selfishness of it, the futility, the ubiquitous addiction to wrong ends...not only a trip to nowhere...
This problem hardly bothers the ma jority of mankind preoccupied with the daily struggle to exist, but its specialness in no way invalidates it. Like Henry James before him, Fowles has created rarefied creatures free enough to take on the toughest question that life offers: How to live? In suggesting that today's seemingly infinite variety of choices need not produce a catatonic or nauseated antihero, Fowles has created both a startlingly provocative novel and a courageous act of willed humanity...
...less than had been estimated by the U.S. in 1907. By the time the steamship Ancon sailed through the canal in the official grand opening on Aug. 15,1914, World War I had just erupted and the celebrations were subdued. Even so, the canal was?and is?one of mankind's most memorable achievements, the moon shot...