Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success? Or is it that 1968 was so terrifying a year for human relations that we must salute a concrete accomplishment made possible by the less human of human virtues, efficiency? I don't quite know. But, to me, 1968 was a year of human commitment. More of mankind than ever before became genuinely concerned for their fellow man. There was more hope arid more despair, more excitement and more tragedy. But, above all, commitment. 1968 was not a year to salute the successes of science; it was a year of hope for the future...
...either Education or Books. Nonetheless, the editors believe that 1969 is an appropriate year to begin a single department that will explore these increasingly provocative intellectual disciplines. For one thing, the human sciences appear to have come into their own as intellectual tools for the proper study of mankind by man. For another, the professionals in these fields of study, breaking from their traditional isolation, are beginning to work together. A number of major U.S. universities have established research centers staffed by behavioral scientists-and their work is proliferating so rapidly that much of it has yet to be reported...
Russia was not alone in its praise. Pope Paul stated that the "very remarkable space achievement of the astronauts" should enrich mankind's spiritual life. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson cabled that the flight "has added a new dimension to our appreciation that this is indeed one world." There were similar messages from U.N. Secretary General U Thant, French President Charles de Gaulle, Premier Eisaku Sato of Japan, King Hassan of Morocco and a host of other world leaders. Even Havana radio contributed to worldwide reaction by presenting lengthy and approving appraisals of Apollo 8's moon mission...
...FROM DAMNATION. Certain human deeds, says Berger, in the common experience of mankind seem "not only evil, but monstrously evil." The archetypal example is the Nazi mass execution of the Jews. Man is "constrained to condemn, and condemn absolutely," the villainy of an Eichmann, and that condemnation derives from a belief that when a person commits such crimes, "he separates himself in a final way from a moral order that transcends the human community, and thus invokes a retribution that is more than human...
...Gary saw the novel as Truth, and his prodigious labors in fiction were called forth by a lonely conviction of its high importance. He subscribed to Cardinal Newman's celebrated notion that what the autobiography does for the life of a particular man, the novel must do for mankind. Gary needed every certitude of dedication to sustain a creative career that began late and even so, suffered from early neglect. When he published his first novel in 1932 (at the age of 43), he had already been struggling at his writing for nearly 20 years...