Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear that this disregard for law, custom and the opinion of mankind . . . cannot be reconciled with the Soviet Government's continued protestations of its devotion to the cause of peace...
...great danger, Ross found, was that almost three-quarters of the people questioned "do not feel that their individual lives are very important in the larger scheme of things . . . Few share deeply in the life of a group dedicated, and actively devoted, to the highest goals of mankind." Few possess a group purpose "such as the disciples had, or the members of a Communist cell possess...
Scientists, always striving with the rest of mankind to work toward greater & greater simplicity, often fare no better than politicians, industrialists, economists and plain citizens: the longer they work, the more complex things get. Delving into the secrets of the atomic nucleus, which once seemed fairly simple, the physicists are finding a new, mysterious and baffling world. Apparently the nucleus contains all sorts of sub-atomic particles...
...Wriston did not deny the existence of society's ills. "There are many other institutions for improving the lot of mankind," he said, "and they are valuable- the Red Cross, hospitals, labor unions and universities, the state and a host of others." On the other hand, there are two modern institutions that should be exclusively concerned with the needs of the individual: the church and the liberal arts college. It is their job, he argued, to improve the individual-the basic unit out of which all social institutions, good & bad, are made...
...very great trouble today, we and the whole of mankind. The organized form of that trouble is easy to name. It is Soviet Communism. In his letter calling for Brotherhood Week, the President of the United States key-noted 'totalitarianism' as the new barbarism which threatens us today. You and I know that there is only one totalitarianism which now threatens the security of the United States and the peace of the world. And you and I are free to name it - Soviet Communism. "What are we going to do about...