Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most crucial time in the world's history, when our hopes for the future of mankind are at stake, TIME'S choices for Men of the Year are the men most responsible for proliferation of arms and increased global tensions...
...extent that one wishes to predict human affairs, it seems to me, one must proceed from what are known to man. It may, perhaps, be possible to automate individuals but it is difficult to see how this can be done to mankind. Mankind ceaselessly regenerates itself as children come into the world, fresh, ignorant of what has preceded them and what is expected of them, keen to observe, and averse to acting as they are told. To create a uniform world, one would have to devise a way of making acquired characteristics inheritable: something that the charlatan biologist. Trofin Lysenko...
That is unlikely. When UNESCO was founded in 1945, the agency's goals were high-minded enough: fostering literacy and education, preserving mankind's cultural heritage, promoting the exchange of scientific ideas. But as Third World nations became a more potent force in the U.N., the organization took a leftward turn. The first real scuffle came in 1974, when UNESCO voted to exclude Israel from a regional working group because it allegedly altered "the historical features of Jerusalem" during archaeological excavations and "brainwashed" Arabs in the occupied territories. Congress promptly suspended UNESCO's appropriations, which forced...
...Discoverers is itself a heroic book. It is a history of all mankind of what Boorstin calls "mankind's need to know." Such a history leaps the barricades of class and race and nation to show the awakening of our collective intelligence. It affirms the powers of discovery to build in the face of man's powers to destroy. Instead of the crossbow or the cannon. Boorstin tells of the printing press, the telescope, and the microscope...
...novels (In the Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians), J.M. Coetzee turned his apocalyptic eye on his native South Africa. The subjects of his books-race war, state violence and personal vengeance-had a distinctive local color. Now the Afrikaner author goes straight to the center of mankind's lust for self-destruction. The scene of Life and Times of Michael K is only incidentally South Africa. The subject is terminal civil war; the time is the end of the world...