Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voices of the people. Some of these writers have labored for the people; they have fought valiant fights for social justice. But their perceptions have not been of the people. . . . The literary mind of our time is sick. It has lost its roots in the soil of mankind, although it possesses a certain energy. [Writers] had broken their organic bonds with family life, the community, nature, and they wrote in a private language of personal friends; they felt nothing but contempt for the primary realities...
...Cornellman ('05) was successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story of the Bible, The Arts, Van Loon's Lives sold 6,000,000 in his lifetime...
...done that it almost makes the spectator tired. The search progresses until the search seems fruitless and then in a flash they realize their triumph. The triumph may seem anti-climactic but this is a story which must be understood in its wider context of radium's benefits to mankind...
...Y.M.C.A. and Negro and labor organizations which sponsored the pamphlet The Races of Mankind, attacking Nazi racial doctrines, were gloomy when the U.S.O. banned it (TIME, Jan. 31). Then the Army bought 55,000 copies and total sales mounted to 290,000. This week the Army banned the pamphlet...
...servicemen affected, I was appalled at the shortsighted and presumptuous action of U.S.O. President Barnard (TiME, Jan. 31) in halting further distribution of the pamphlet The Races of Mankind on the grounds of its being "controversial." Since when has a good dose of healthy "controversy" been anything but salutary? ... I shall do my damndest to obtain ., copy...