Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twain sequence, however, is butchered almost beyond belief. The climactic total eclipse scene is so speeded up that the whole affair could easily be mistaken for a small but dark cloud passing in front of the sun. Hollywood, it seems, is so dreadfully afraid of boring its customers that it baffles them instead...
...writer from the Russian zone has been smuggling out his replies through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find...
Without regard to nationality or political belief, preference in student selection is given to those who plan to teach or enter public life, in order to spread the influence of the Seminar as widely as possible. Application are screened by European student organizations and teachers, and final choice is made after an interview with the Executive Director, Professor John Finch of Dartmouth. All students attend the Seminar without cast to themselves, and where necessary they have their travelling expenses paid...
Quoting is fellow package store owners, the liquor dealer expressed the belief that the ultimate answer to the whole problem must lie in the hands of college authorities, as "older students can always buy alcoholic beverages for their younger drinking companions...
...General Education: "It is our belief, however, that a serious deficiency in a Harvard Education is also a serious deficiency of the GE report; it is a failure to focus on method and on the problem of eliciting active student participation...