Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goldovsky, who made a place on the concert and lecture platform long before his operas began to draw critical praise, holds one unshakable belief: that acting and direction are as vital to opera as singing and orchestration. In his summers at Tanglewood, he has trained not only a fine corps of performers but also a small group of directors, musicians, and production...
...draft has been subjected to every kind of criticism since its enactment last June; Mr. Conant's opposition springs from his belief that it is discriminatory. He has said that the wide discretion vested in local boards may bring undesirable and unfair pressure upon them. By deferring college students until the end of their academic year and exempting married men, he feels that the law will turn both institutions into havens for draft dodgers. And drafting a man in the middle of his college career is disruptive not only to his education but also to the college or university itself...
...common effort to keep humanity from rolling off the plateau over a precipice, said Sir Oliver: "You may rest secure that Britain will not fail you and in the back of the mind of every Briton there is firm and steadfast belief that you will not fail...
...Philosophy jolts people out of their easy complacency by revealing how precarious are the foundations of customary belief: Philosophy is self-knowledge and selfcriticism; it is the transition from wishfulness to wisdom, from innocence to maturity . . . In Plato's words, the philosopher has a view of all time and all existence. With such a perspective, he can put success in its place and failure in its place, and so be unshaken either by misfortune or good fortune...
...Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that he was "open and honest and free from guile...