Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Louise caught her propagandist's breath. "Amazing . . . unforgettable remark," she wrote; "such a serene assurance of the bright future of mankind...
...faith of ascetic, heretic-burning John Calvin was stern, hard and alien to a boisterous young country in a nature-taming age. Calvinism insisted on 1) the total depravity of man, 2) a God who, for His own good reasons, irrevocably divided all mankind into the Elect and the Damned, 3) strict "blue laws...
...Long Beach, Calif, last week. Built by National Theatres Corp.'s president Charles Skouras, it is constructed of steel, gypsum and Fiberglas sections and seats 1,164 people. Said a brochure handed out to first-nighters: "The instinct of self-preservation is one of the strongest in mankind. No audience can fully relax unless it is assured nothing in the way of accident, fire or earthquake can mar its entertainment." To give this assurance the theater featured "303 wonders," including a 38-ft., air-conditiofred davenport in the lounge, germicidal lamps to kill airborne bacteria, a vacuum shoe cleaner...
...Hendrik was born in Rotterdam in 1882 a few hours after Richard Wagner had finished Parsifal (the events had no bearing on each other, he whimsically explains). After recording this fact the author supplies six successive childhood memories, each followed by a digression in genealogy, i.e., the story of mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish...
...brought little but harshness, cruelty and physical misery to the human beings who have fallen within the range of its influence. In the name of ideology, it has committed acts which, deprived of any ideological motive, could be classified only with the most stupendous crimes in the history of mankind...