Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the primary aims of the Peace Corps are humanitarian, Phillips said, "the suspicion will exist that it is an arm of the government, and we might as well be sure that we get all the advantages. I too am very much interested in seeing all mankind pull together and work together for the good of all," but "if you believe that freedom is more important than the way people live, then you will realize that we must push back the Communist menace and extend the frontier of freedom...
Vostok was not an unmanned satellite-impersonal, cold, emotionally empty. It had carried an ordinary man soaring across the face of the heavens, and mankind's imagination had soared with him. Scientists could talk with new assurance about a whole new series of technological achievements that might refashion the world of the future: manned satellites watching and perhaps controlling the weather, guiding ships and airplanes, acting as communication relay stations, providing a drastic change of environment for people with diseases that cannot be cured on earth. Military men conjured up orbiting space fleets, bristling with giant nuclear missiles capable...
...Egyptian ideas. Russian scientists have often said as much, and they did so again last week. Said an official Soviet Government and Communist Party announcement: "We regard these victories in the conquest of outer space not only as the achievement of our people but as an achievement of all mankind." However chagrined U.S. scientists felt last week, they also partook of the Russian triumph...
...Renaissance and Reformation gave man a new telos-"the active subjugation and transformation of nature and man." This was the combination of Renaissance humanism, oriented politically and technically, with the Calvinistic and Evangelical aim to subject the "world and mankind to the kingdom...
...times, his canvases seem to be the work of one motivated more by a desire to shock than by compassion for suffering mankind. But at their best they have, even in their sledgehammer bluntness, a rare subtlety. "What I want in my work," says Strombotne, "is beauty, power and mystery. Each word in capitals. Real beauty, real power-plus mystery. I want my pictures to be specific as hell, but enigmatic...