Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climax of the action comes when mankind, up for judgment for the world's sin, turns against God as the guilty one, and sentences him to experience for himself the agony of a D.P., "homeless, hungry, thirsty, terrified of death," surrounded by misery and sickness, suffering even the death of his own child, and dying at last himself in pain and dishonor. The human judge duly condemns God "to the hellish journey of being a man," and the three Archangels leave to carry out the sentence...
...intensity ever since the U.S. and Russia fired their much-publicized H-bombs in 1954. From public forums and presses all over the world has come an unending stream of speeches, pamphlets and books-some of them by eminent scientists-upgrading or downgrading the dangers of radioactive fallout to mankind, condemning or defending the testing of nuclear weapons. At the crux of the debate is the question: How perilous to man is the key element in H-bomb fallout, strontium...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26 concluded his observations on atomic theory and the relationships between atomic mechanics and classical mechanics Friday in Sanders Theatre, and then went on to the topic, "The Proper Study of Mankind." He was delivering his sixth William James Lecture on Philosophy and Psychology...
Moving on to the "The Proper Study of Mankind," he declared that "man is overwhelmed by all those who are studying him." In the study on man, Oppenheimer distinguished between two main branches of study, the scientific approach--through biology, chemistry, psychology, and psychiatry--and the historical approach...
...final three lectures, to be delivered this Friday, and next Monday and Friday, are entitled "The Proper Study of Mankind," "Power and Learning," and "The Hope of Order...