Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person which these educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society: science. According to modern educational dogma, science should be the final test of all action; all things outside it-"man's ingrained habit of setting up ethical and moral ideals, his belief that his own life must mean something and that the universe should 'make sense'"-are "prejudices...
...Murder & Belief. A slow, meticulous worker in the early Renaissance technique of egg tempera on gesso panels, Cadmus builds his pictures up with thousands of tiny brush strokes, finds time to complete only three or four a year. He had interspersed his Sins with cleverly composed little pictures of ballet dancers practicing and handsome boys having fun on beaches. There was also a photographically sharp scene of mob violence, Herrin Massacre, which described in bloody detail the murder of a gang of strikebreakers by coal miners at Herrin, Ill. in 1922. Like many of Cadmus' best works, Herrin...
Apart from Herrin and the Sins, the most ambitious picture in the show was a summer landscape seething with happy nudes and entitled What I Believe. The painting did not make Cadmus' belief plain (unless he had meant to plump for nudism and close quarters), but it did at least indicate, said Cadmus, "that I don't really hate people...
...second half of Bush's thesis is more acceptable. His belief that science in a democracy is necessarily more creative than that in a totalitarian state is pretty suspect--at the end of the war Nazi scientist were well ahead of the Allies in the development of aircraft, guided missiles, tanks, and submarines, among other things. But his does not mean that we must be unprepared...
...accepting the gift, Provost Buck indicated a belief that "Management now realizes it can best serve the cause of private education as a free enterprise, if it provides free funds without attaching limiting restrictions...