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...Baha'i religion, founded in Iran in 1844, holds as its basic principle the unity of mankind, McLaughlin said. This commitment, she added, also includes equality of sexes and races, the refusal to fight, the advocacy of non-partisan nuclear disarmament, and the disavowal of all divisive actions...
Nothing, however, can give it the substance. Under all the furor, spontaneous or manufactured, and the high urgency, real or prefabricated just for the premiere, is the film, a frail vessel indeed to bear the fate of mankind. History and distance have not made Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove any less great or-sadly-less relevant, but even a movie as fine as that would have to struggle to stay above the sort of ideological tide surging around The Day After. No one has yet made the case that Dr. Strangelove has been bested, although there...
...then, hardly anyone for some time has regarded international athletic competition as a refuge from the troubles afflicting mankind. Probably since 776 B.C., but certainly since 1936, the summer of Adolf Hitler's Nazi festival, the games have been irresistible forums for social, racial and political causes (as well as a handy time for athletes from totalitarian states to defect). There was pause on the part of some countries as to whether they wished to party with the Third Reich. But the I.O.C. assured everyone that it had met with Hitler and "no one since the Greeks had captured...
...That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind...
...baffling history of mankind is full of obvious turning points: battles won, treaties signed, rulers elected or deposed, and now, seemingly, planets conquered. Equally important are the great groundswells of popular movements that affect the minds and values of a generation or more. Looking back upon the America of the '60s, future historians may well search for the meaning of one such movement, on Aug. 15 through 17, 1969, on the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel...