Word: mankind
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Cain has just committed mankind's first murder, and the Lord asks him what happened to Abel. "Am I my brother's keeper?" Cain replies, or so say most Bibles. Now, that is all changed. Says Cain: "Am I supposed to take care of my brother?" As for his parents, there are no longer any euphemisms about Adam "knowing" Eve. The new version says straightforwardly that Adam and Eve "had intercourse...
...sells it before the roof is finished," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote some 140 years before Charles Reich sublet his leaky Consciousness III to follow the sunset to California. Reich's evolutionary rebellion is, in fact, a mobile-home version of Consciousness III-that pot-scented notion that mankind can somehow escape civilization and its discontents. Gnomic and unpolitical, ER is part of the new solipsism and characteristic of a lot of people who, disillusioned by the radical politics in the '60s, withdrew into the various styles of the "personal growth" movement. Reich's version is a kind...
...real future which replaces the imaginary is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grown and the squirrel's heart beat and we should die of that which lies on the other side of silence...
With two less-than-glowing adaptations of Moliere comedies in town, the old Frenchman must be doing some pretty high-speed spinning in the grave. The Boston Repertory Theatre features a contemporary version of The Misanthrope; the production inspires antipathy not towards mankind in general but towards one in particular; the director. Scapino! at the Loeb fares much better; George Hamlin's skilled direction turns an uneven collection of actors into a smooth comic troupe...
...women's movement and expose it to unjustified ridicule" and would "have serious and undesirable repercussions, perhaps throughout the entire country." The precedent, he wrote, might well lead not only to such "inane" name changes as Manning to Peopling and Carmen to Carpersons, but even to words like mankind becoming personkind. Says Cooperman, who plans to appeal: "I'm all for that...