Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly, Arts. Excerpts: ¶ "The capital of France has become an immense flea market. To the connoisseur hoping to find a truly French painting . . . everything new turns out to be old and refurbished . . . Even the fleas are false." ¶ "Mechanical invention reigns in the studios of Montmartre and Montparnasse. Mankind is consumed in making gas explode in cylinders, in making engines turn faster and faster . . . Genuine inspiration is stifled before it can bear fruit." ¶ Negro sculpture, Negro art, jazz, syncopated rhythm, contorted forms, flattened shapes-all this has become a slogan . . . The so-called renaissance of modern...
...Kutno, Poland, Sholem Asch used to pester his mother with the question: "Why has God divided mankind into Jew and Gentile?" With a rollicking brood of ten boys and five girls on her hands, Mother Asch had "other things to think about." But the question plagued Sholem Asch, eventually led him to become a religious novelist...
...beginning of the century when the problems facing university students were not so pressing as they are today. Such words are a perfect definition of the ideals of mid-Twentieth Century education as well. They deserve repetition whenever secular education is irrationally blamed for the sad state of mankind and morals. They are an excellent answer to these attacks on free educational institutions--attacks which must be answered before terms like "godless" and "immoral" assume a new, broader meaning...
...project, including establishing the satellites: 5,356,600 tons. Von Braun admitted that this is a lot of fuel, but he pointed out that one-tenth as much was burned up during the Berlin airlift "just because of a little misunderstanding among diplomats." He hoped that when mankind enters the cosmic age, "wars will be a thing of the past . . . and people will be ready to foot the fuel bill for a voyage to our neighbors in space...
...prosperity are governed by the rapid application of science to its industries and commerce . . . [Scientific knowledge] has reached a point where we can set the world free . . . or obliterate life itself . . . It is clearly our duty as citizens to see that science is used for the benefit of mankind. For, of what use is science if man does not survive...