Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Wallace, can choose one of two points of view. "The first is that it is not possible to get along with the Russians and therefore war is inevitable. The second is that war with Russia would bring catastrophe to all mankind and therefore we must find a way of living in peace." Wallace chose the second for "our own welfare as well as that of the entire world...
...reference to nuclear fission. . . . The next phase may be atomic warfare . . . but it is conceivable that we have enough sense [to confine ourselves] to a period, not indeed of peace, but of . . . only partially ruinous warfare. . . . During that period the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must...
...already so appalled by the menaces of adult life that he longed to remain a boy forever. By the time he was 18 he had seen a man and a woman publicly hanged. Soon after, when he first set pen to paper, his lifelong theme was already in evidence-"mankind's predicament in the universe...
...doubt there was a certain amount of holy innocence in Dr. Newton's appraisal of Communism in practice. No doubt the Soviet Government was far more worldly and realistic. But the fact of being a Christian implies a faith that in the end all mankind, including Russia, must be pervaded by religious belief. It was just possible that in adding to their list of religious well-wishers, the hardheaded commissars were inviting the innocence of doves to triumph over the wisdom of serpents...
...nine years at tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr has helped his students catch up on the minutes of mankind's most memorable meetings: the "100 Great Books," from Homer to Bertrand Russell. (His list, which is flexible, differs from the University of Chicago's, now numbers 109.) Last week President Barr announced he was quitting St. John's, going off somewhere else to start a new college-almost exactly like the one he was leaving...