Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such free-style individualists as the American Unitarian Association, the effort was doomed from the start. The writers found widespread Unitarian agreement on only three points: 1) belief in the dignity and promise of man; 2) insistence on "the principle of the free mind"; 3) "a common program of [liberal] social action." On matters theological there seemed almost as many opinions as there were Unitarians; toward God, attitudes ranged from emphatic interest through vagueness and indifference to flat rejection. Sample views...
...results of the survey showed that there was apparently little foundation to the belief that most students have jobs lined up before they graduate. Only five percent of the seniors have positions already definitely assured them...
Bennett rates Communism's "idolatry" as a greater fault than its theoretical Marxist atheism. The Communist regards his particular movement as being able to redeem the world. This passionate "belief, says Bennett, "develops a form of complete human self-sufficiency that is incompatible with the Christian understanding of man's dependence upon God. It precludes any transcendent judgment upon the Communist society. It creates a false optimism and fails to prepare the people in a Communist society for the continuing sin that goes with new forms of power...
Edward G. Robinson's Joe Keller is a truly contemptible cheat, trapped by his own weakness, trying to bully his conscience out of existence, taking refuge from his acts in the fond belief that he acted "for his family." But his acquaintances give him credit only for being more "clever" than his partner who went to jail, and his own son deserts him as soon as he is convinced of his father's guilt. His wife Kate, played by Mady Christians, seeks refuge from her husband's acts in the firm conviction that Larry is still alive, until his letter...
With the start of the 1946-47 season, Noel Lee '46 was chosen president, and a new policy was instituted of playing contemporary and rarely performed older music in the belief that the Club could do a real service in presenting works which could not be heard elsewhere...