Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always sure just how or why their techniques work, but so long as the patient gets better, they are content to plug away at the techniques and let the theories wait. Psychiatrists use great doses of good will, some guesswork, and a few tricks picked up from mankind's troubled past...
...fret overmuch at the "brekekekex koäx" of ecclesiastical discussion. What if the men who make religion their business do sound much like the men whose business is politics? They are both debating problems which have beset mankind for a long time. The U.N. diplomats are struggling with the problem of nationalism, which in our culture is only a few centuries old, and it may be solved in a few more centuries. The problems which beset religion are much older, and will be much longer in the solving...
Said Bevin: "If the black fury, the incalculable disaster of atomic war, should fall upon us, one power, by refusing its cooperation in the control and development of those great new forces . . . will alone be responsible for the evils which may be visited upon mankind . . ." Swiveling his great bulk toward Vishinsky, Bevin cried: "If the Soviet representative had any feeling for the simple people of Europe or the world, if he were animated by anything but out-of-date, backward, unscientific doctrine, he would be the first to applaud the great, unselfish contribution of the United States to world recovery...
...that vein, President Jordan cited the need for preparation in "leadership and responsibility" in the postwar college world today and added that such qualities could most fully be achieved by "a leisurely and vicarious participation in the past of mankind, and in coming to an understanding of the sentiments that have inspired and moved...
...Ruth Fulton Benedict, 61, Columbia professor of anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...