Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explain human behavior today. In extending the earlier findings of the ethologists, whose ideas a generation ago became popular with Konrad Lorenz, the sociobiologists assert that despite man's centuries-long effort to insist that he is distinctively different from his fellow animals, one proper study of mankind is beast...
...heavenly Council of Love has met to assign him the feat of punishing mankind for its lust. God is too senile to start over, and the redemption of human soul is his only reason for existence, so fits of wrath like flood and fire are out this time. The devil ponders the problem and answers it with syphilis in the guise of an utterly naive and entrancing woman. The Virgin Mary is belatedly overcome with pity for humanity and ignores her promise to reward this hellish effort despite the demon's defence that his victims will still be capable...
...killer actually thinks he has accomplished something toward the betterment of mankind. He even brought flowers to the wake. God help...
...inside. Once decoded they can be apprehended as allegories of unconscious terror and yearning. "To the child," Bettelheim writes in this provocative and quirky book, "and to the adult who, like Socrates, knows that there is still a child in the wisest of us, fairy tales reveal truths about mankind and himself...
...students is being reached. As the Vatican II document entitled The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World states, "the beginning, the subject, and the goal of all social institutions is and must be the human person . . ." It stresses that the growth of a community of mankind must parallel the growing interdependence of people. It is that interdependence that the present ministry is trying to foster...