Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting tonight at eight o'clock in the Lowell House common room, American Youth for Democracy members from six universities in the vicinity of Boston, Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, M.I.T., Simmons, and Tufts, will hear three speakers discuss the future of mankind as applied to their particular fields...
...McRompers still marched on. At the United Nations Health Assembly meeting in New York delegates unanimously approved a psychological attack on the world's ills through "mental armament." Children, said Canada's Deputy Health Minister George Brock Chisholm, must be taught to live harmoniously together or mankind will follow the dinosaur into oblivion...
...speaking as one journalist to another ... as long as they [the Russians] must pretend to be more perfect than men can ever be, and must hold themselves aloof, obscure and mysterious, the timid may fear them, but the shrewd common sense of mankind and its instinct of liberty will not permit men to trust them, to like them, or to follow them...
...what is first-rate from what is not." He restates his counsel of perfection in this month's Atlantic essay (originally a lecture at Toronto's Victoria College). Says he: "Always, soon or late, humanity turns to excellence as naturally as a flower turns to the sun: mankind crucifies Christ and kills Socrates, and they die amid derision and hatred; but in the end they receive the homage of the world. . . . To see the vision of excellence ... is to take seriously the tremendous words of Christ: 'Be ye therefore perfect...
...atheist and a confirmed one. Am I right?" Gorky, godless himself, was hardly right, but in many respects he saw Tolstoy plain-his "misty preaching" rising from "the unhealthy ferment of the old Russian blood," the man himself "madly and tormentingly beautiful . . . a man of the whole of mankind...