Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grounds of good intentions: its present offering of a black South African tract, Bopha!, performed by the authors, is exuberant but crude. The other show now running, however -- the debut of Kingfish by local writer Marlane Meyer -- is an adroitly staged, intelligently acted and gut-thumping depiction of mankind at its most predatory...
...largest airplane. "They say it can't fly," he intently whispers, "but that's not the point." We in the audience laugh, poor conventional souls that we are, brought up to believe the goal of invention is not self-satisfaction but marketability and, just possibly, the chance to improve mankind's general welfare. How boring...
Just when these events have wrung the utmost sympathy and admiration for the Hallams from the reader, Barnard shakes the kaleidoscope: in a tour de force passage of inner monologue, the visiting girl re-examines some seemingly unimportant events to expose how the family's pieties about mankind have masked a cruel indifference to individual people. The field of potential suspects thereby doubles to include the noble clan. More important, what happened on a moonlit lawn, and why, becomes less a puzzle and more a metaphor for a social system on the brink of change. Throughout, Barnard's narrative never...
...nations to recognize its status. At the same time, the Japanese are sometimes seen by outsiders as lacking clear goals for their country or any abiding sense of how to put their wealth and power to use. "There must be some ideal that we have that would appeal to mankind," says Hideaki Kase, a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs officer and writer on security affairs. "Britain has the Magna Carta, France its Liberte. Americans have their Revolution. Even the Russians and the Chinese created socialist models to copy...
...course, those who would take boxing away from the strugglers offer no plan to replace it. And no one wants to acknowledge that it may be irreplaceable. The high-minded view is that boxing will exist only as long as whatever it reflects in mankind exists, although picturing Spinks slaughtering Tyson is easier than imagining a world without men who ball their fists for pleasure or prizes. The big fight doesn't come along so often anymore, defined as the kind that can get in people's stomachs and occasionally have trouble staying there. But here it is again...