Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of an enormous conflagration burning everything into ashes.... Western culture is covered by a blackout. A great tornado sweeps over the whole of mankind...
...lecture, entitled "France's Fifth Republic," Hoffmann, a Frenchman himself, supported the policies of Premier Charles De Gaulle concerning French policy toward Algeria. Hoffmann favored a postponement of a political solution while pushing ahead with a program of "economic and social recognition for the honor of mankind" in the area...
...never answers these questions about his central character. His identity and his past remain obscure-beyond the fact that Mahood's entire family was killed off by sausage poisoning. But it does not take much imagination to see in Mahood (Manhood?) Author Beckett's savage symbol for mankind. Beckett's great strength is to make his readers uneasy. Like all Beckettmen, Mahood echoes the old existentialist plaint that he did not ask to be born and that life's mess is not of his making. Despairingly he sums up his and Beckett's arid philosophy...
...felt that its conflict with firmly entrenched traces of the old "sensate" culture could only point to more violent struggles in the future. As a result, in 1937 he was able to discount the optimistic hopes of many of his colleagues for a lasting universal peace, and instead said mankind must look forward to an age of "bigger and better wars." Sorokin noted that since that time his most severe critics have been banished to the "ash can of history," and their "apple sauce-sweet theories" have gone with them...
...another important trend, Sorokin noted a "shift in the creative leadership of mankind" from its traditional seat in Europe to a wider area, including the Americas, Asia, and Euro-Asian countries, notably Russia...