Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close-packed delegates-milkmaids, marshals, lady welders, robed Asian tribesmen-volleyed cheers. This was a Congress of Victors, and on this day when the Communist heads of a third of mankind were met to hear him tell it, there was no doubt who the winner was. Here was Nikita Khrushchev, 64, racing through the statistics of his triumphs-Lunik, Sputniks, "mass-produced" ICBMs, new targets for industry, farming and education. Gone was the last Congress' talk of collective leadership; gone were those saber-toothed old commissars (Molotov, Kaganovich, Malenkov et al.), who had been bloodlessly banished and disgraced...
...constant' was his bitter hatred of anything having to do with religion." ¶ Biographer Justino Fernandez: "Orozco is hard on God at the Day of Judgment, because he felt that the punishments meted out to sinful men were too severe." ¶ Dealer Inés Amor: "He hated mankind, if ever a man did. 'All Indians,' he used to say, 'are ugly.' Why was he bitter? Because of his life, his failures, his poverty, his obsessive inferiority complex." ¶ Writer Alma Reed: "He had compassion and humanity above all other painters. He was a great...
...general, says Fromm. "Freud's aim was to found a movement for the ethical liberation of man, a new secular and scientific religion for an elite which was to guide mankind." What happened? His "messianic impulses" struck a response in followers who had no strong religious, political and philosophic convictions, but a hidden need for them. In "the movement" they found everything: "A dogma, a ritual, a leader, a hierarchy, the feeling of possessing the truth, of being superior to the uninitiated...
...recent Atlas successes and put the U.S.S.R. ahead in the prestige-packed race for space. The cosmic rocket, Moscow said in a dozen languages, was the net result of "the creative toil of the whole Soviet people [in] the development of Socialist society in the interests of all progressive mankind...
...past 20 years, industrial designers have become a self-conscious coterie, well paid and well content with their mission : to save mankind from ugliness in man-made products. The work of such men as Henry Dreyfuss, Ward Bennett and Raymond Loewy in Manhattan and Eero Saarinen (who is both architect and designer) in Detroit has raised industrial design from a mechanical slough of vulgarity. For in the early years of mass production, the sound design of artisans gave way to the cheaply pretentious. The craftsmanlike simplicity of early American furniture was displaced by curlicues and overstuffing, and bathtubs took...