Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME is to be congratulated on its article . . . Our major health organizations, presenting independent appeals and operating outside the uniformed control of local federated fund-raising groups, are our best hope of conquering mankind's leading diseases. They offer the individual the precious sense of participation in something that is vital and dynamic. They create a national awareness of outstanding medical problems. They show the individual how he can protect his own health...
There is just as good ground for believing that an atomic stalemate, which renders general war intolerable and improbable, will give the free world a better chance in the rivalry for the allegiance of mankind. To say, as he does, that in the atomic stalemate nation after nation will be "nibbled away" is to sound as if Mr. Knowland wants to go to war as soon as possible. If that is not what he believes, then he may fairly be asked to explain more clearly just what he is talking about...
Trade & Peace. East-West trade is coming anyway, says Randall, "and there is little we can do about it unless we risk the whole temper of our international relationships by strict attempts to interfere . . . The experience of mankind leads one to think that trade makes for peace. The more points at which the Iron Curtain can be penetrated and the more individuals there are who cross it to deal with individuals on the other side, the more chances there would seem to be of ultimate mutual understanding...
...Limitations. The Shepley-Blair book begins with the following important statement of its own limitations: "A full assessment of the delay in development of the hydrogen bomb and its effect on the survival of the U.S. as a nation and upon the future of mankind will be impossible for some years to come. These reporters have not attempted to do so here, or to ascribe motives to the individuals responsible...
Ever since Eve ate the apple, the Devil has had a particularly winning appeal for mankind. Every nation has expressed itself on this theme with its own special brand of Satan lore, climaxed perhaps by the German Faust-legend. Beauty and the Devil, the latest restatement of the old tale, may be a corruption of previous interpretations, but it's probably just what one would expect from the French. Rene Clair's treatment of the story, at the Brattle this week, is as sparkling and stimulating to the audience as it is subversive to the tragic moral dilemma that earlier...