Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such embarrassing jobs as the one he had with Pancho's band at the Copley Plaza last fall, he plans to stay in Boston and join Charlie Vinal's band at the Copley Square (provided that the sponsors' bankrolls haven't been depleted!) on the strength of his belief that playing jazz a couple of nights a week for union scale and taking a day job for the rest is better than making $120 a week with a sickening hotel orchestra. That, my friends, is devotion to an ideal...
...That at the end of this struggle there will be victory for Germany, and consequently for Europe, against the criminal attackers in the East and West, is not only an expression of the belief of every National Socialist, but an inner certainty. . . . The enemy's attempts to bring the German Reich to collapse by high explosives and incendiary bombs will only strengthen the German people's determination...
...Alpha, and crammed to the scalp with Chinese, sociology, polysyllables, pure reason. At six, Alpha runs into a sentimental newshawk who is appalled when she says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights up, in an enormous neon dragon above Times Square, in the whistling convolutions of a popcorn machine...
Clench-jawed Lord Vansittart left his post as Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office in 1941, the better to press his belief that salvation lies in taming the Teuton. Last week he reduced his formula to twelve points, published them in the New York Times Magazine...
Some 14 years ago Lewis passed from polite skepticism to religious belief. Said he: "I didn't want to. I'm not in the least the religious type. I want to be left alone, to feel I'm my own master: but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in." Two books influenced his conversion: Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy; G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man. Of the latter Lewis says: "That book still needs a lot of answering...