Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
...whenever during the Civil War he asked for repayment from the Spaniards for his help they promptly transferred the conversation to high, idealistic grounds. He growled: "As a German one feels toward the Spanish almost like a Jew who wants to make business out of the holiest possessions of mankind...
...between the retrogrades and the Astromentalists. The nub of Author Werfel's posthumous philosophy lies in his quotation from Valentinus the Gnostic: "There are two fundamental species of angels. The ones helped man from the beginning to make the earth habitable. The others prevented him from doing it. Mankind is still far too immature to be told which of these angels are the good ones and which the bad ones...
...into royal favor, betrayed King Saul and his people, took over the throne, ruled Israel in her march from primitivism to the brink of decadence, and declined among the dissensions, rapes, assassinations, and revolutionary plots of his children, then sought and found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist, not very interesting...
...220th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, he said that "science rides high in Russia," and that "we must accept the challenge of the USSR--we the people, the government, the scientists of America must be the leaders in service to mankind through science...