Word: mankind
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...worst offenders are the eight women in the chorus. they plod like cows and wail like banshees. Eliot wrote lengthy parts for the chorus, to make it the passive, fearful substratum of the play, somewhere between mankind and nature. Its members understand even less than the audience what's happening to Becket, but they too participate in a small way in the miracle of Becket's martyrdom and learn something as the play progresses. You wouldn't know it from the actresses at Currier, who maintain the same unbearable level of high-pitched, uncomprehending moaning from start to finish--until...
...countries that have adapted best to recent economic problems, notably West Germany and Japan, suffer inflation or slow growth. The world money system that functioned like a Swiss watch for a quarter-century has been sending off alarms. Gold, the barbarous relic that Shakespeare called the "common whore of mankind," has become the refuge for a world fearful of returning to an economic jungle...
What happened to Marshall? "I could not quite accept the idea of mankind being all alone," he says, referring to the philosophical premises of his revolutionary years. "In the '60s we all flirted around with Marxism. But clearly there are powers beyond those solely generated by human societies. I learned a lot of things in jail too." In 1971 Marshall spent two months in Terminal Island Prison in Los Angeles and six more at Clearwater Prison camp in Washington State on a contempt of court conviction. "At Terminal Island I wouldn't shave, so they...
...Every individual creature has a soul, a specific individual nature, the origin of which cannot be discovered in any cause-and-effect process whatever. Individuality appears in defiance of all scientific laws." By "science" and "laws" Lawrence meant psychoanalysis, which to him stripped away the dignity and mystery of mankind and reduced all human actions to the perfectly rational level. Under psychological scrutiny man ceases to be human at all. Instead he becomes "a little god inside a machine, working all the gears...
...case builds upon the universal signs among mankind of conscience, of some moral law and of each person's inability to keep it satisfactorily, all of which can not be explained as mere conditioning or self-interest. The source of that spark of conscience, theists contend, is God. The most celebrated exponent, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), wrote that each person's quest for the "highest good" implies the existence of a moral being as the necessary condition for this idea, who is himself the source of all morality...