Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another of Duerrenmatt's pessimistic, Pernod-flavored judgments on mankind, The Deadly Game has both its moral and its theatrical merits. Few men tried at Duerrenmatt's Court of the Unconscious would escape whipping; in the unconscious of the very men who stage the trials there may lurk as much blood lust as love of law. They, with their icy, refined, half-mad sense of justice, and the American, with his coldhearted dog-eat-dog view of life, face one another with contrasted inhumanity; the space between them seems nothing less at times than all groping humanity itself...
...beer for everybody. The outside world learned to forgo any serious business and to watch with amused tolerance for the duration. In the taut days of 1960, the American political campaign is something quite different-a serious debate treating soberly the great issues that will affect the whole of mankind, enacted before the eyes of an anxious world...
...sight finally fails him completely at the telltale light switch, he has the spunk and serenity to bear it. He likens the morning's church chimes to "nine prayer strokes. Three for the night that's past. Three for the day that's coming. Three for mankind, the children of day and light...
...concluded with an appeal to the modern world to recognize that God is love: "When we know God as unchanging love and understand that man, God's idea, is the expression of love, we bring into operation the law of love, which blesses and brings harmony to all mankind...
Against that abhorrent spectacle, and the memories of Hungary and other Communist conquests, the U.S. example of liberty under law, of self-restraint imposed by what Jefferson called "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind," of willingness to use strength to protect independence stood out as powerful assets. Dwight Eisenhower had been shaped by those principles?and in 1959, carrying a message of peace with freedom to three far continents, he represented them to the world as could no one else...