Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China's Communist Party got a love note: "Our generation of youth will always rally closely around the party and go wherever the party tells us ... We will never disappoint the party in its earnest hopes and will strive to accelerate the building of socialism and to realize mankind's noblest ideal-Communism-in our generation and by our own hands." To millions of hand-blistered Chinese students, the last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much of the impetus in China's "Year of the Leap" (TIME, Dec. 1) has come from daily sessions...
...mankind, Pasternak is a symbol of the "élan to good" which he believes is the spirit of the coming age, even in Soviet Russia. As Dr. Zhivago puts it, "I believe that man is only drawn to goodness through good." In Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak has fulfilled his personal definition of the highest purpose of art: to create "an image of man [that] is greater than man," thus leading him to nobler realms of being. He also reminds men that Christ and the Christ-in-everyman is the last best hope of earth. In a perplexed, ravaged and despairing...
...really means. At a time when more and more thinking people all over the world are concerning themselves with the dilemma of over-population, an institution like Widener Library should not withhold from its students any work which deals with a subject of such significance to the survival of mankind as the control of human reproduction. Karl Sax (Harvard M.S. '17, S.Sc. '22), Professor of Botany, President, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts...
...control the director turns the kitten into a pure manifesation of the faltering yet beautiful spirit of the girl. And the symbol of the bridges itself is handled superbly. The first bridge is love, the rapport of one individual with another; the rest are humanitarian honor, the responsibility towards mankind of one who is not an island...
...being hired to build the launching pad (or sinking site). "One thing it proves," says Monahan, "is that engineers can be awfully gullible. One reason we did this was to lampoon the engineers. I don't think anybody can be more pompous than the engineers who are saving mankind...