Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things I like about TIME is the way you report seemingly unimportant happenings which turn out to be highly symptomatic of the swiftly passing parade of mankind...
...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...Peace. The Church, said the Pope, "must be now more than ever supranational." At the same time, it cannot be "in an inaccessible and intangible isolation," but must be in the very midst of mankind. The Pope's moral essentials for a true and lasting peace...
...what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras, go down in the end in agony, but leave behind a record of new heights scaled and new rewards won for all mankind; the vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again...
Awkward Mantle. The Man of the Year personified the problem of the year. His very name had almost the force of a pun. Like most of mankind, he was ill prepared for the destiny and responsibility which had been thrust upon him. He did not want the responsibility; the destiny rested awkwardly on his shoulders...