Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking fact to be observed is that in such a movement, no matter how frivolous, is expressed the bitterly callous attitude of our generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming of the future war will deprive the most deserving bloc of its veterans of their bonus, by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humor are not to be censored. Youth...
Wisdom for Mankind. The curtain went down, soon went up again, and there on the stage was Eugene Ionesco himself, a Rumanian-born French citizen who answers the frequent charge that the bizarre (e.g., three-nosed) characters in his plays "come from nowhere" by saying that "they come from Everywhere." Through an interpreter he solemnly told his audience that the surrealists "nourished me," but that the three biggest influences on his work were actually Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. Answering written questions from the house, he picked up a cold potato that went "Do you think that the modern dramatic...
...Lesson a teacher who has tried to instruct 39 inept students, murdering each one when the effort failed, murders No. 40 onstage. In The Chairs an aged couple takes leave of the world through a window, leaving behind an Orator appointed to deliver their final message of wisdom for mankind; but the Orator is an inarticulate idiot...
...1960s every American is summoned to extraordinary personal responsibility, sustained effort and sacrifice. For the nation is in grave danger, threatened by the rulers of one-third of mankind, for whom the state is everything, the individual significant only as he serves the state...
...with all the good and none of the bad that came of the noble experiment, and who wants to fight for Arthur in the conflict that will dissolve Camelot once and for all. "Camelot" becomes a moving wish for what might have been and a statement of hope for mankind, as Arthur charges the boy to go back home and spread the true spirit of Camelot, which will live on despite what has happened. When Arthur sadly describes the "one shining moment in the history of the world," Camelot is more than just a show put on in a theatre...