Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modern man . . . staggers between belief and disbelief, revolt and humility, anarchy and obedience. . . . The people of our age are restless, excitable and fatigued. . . . Many fall into despair and cast themselves of their own will into that post-mortem darkness. . . . [Modern man], in his equality with God, either becomes a tyrant or joins the army of the despairing and dying...
...Party represents at the present moment. The most vital task in the fight for independence, democracy and security under law in Norway is that of reducing the Communist Party and its influence. . . . We will try to convince those who joined them in good faith during the war, in the belief that the Communist Party was national and democratic...
...Today there is no longer anyone who has the right to nurture such a belief. Those who head the Communist Party in Norway today are Comintern Communists. Like their fellow workers in other lands, they are disciples of terror and dictatorship. No longer must well-worded declamations be allowed to prevent people from recognizing this brutal fact, even though for many it might constitute a sinister discovery...
Readers of Joad's fast-selling latest book are now discovering the new Joad who emerged during the war a believer. Joad's Decadence, A Philosophical Inquiry (Faber; 12/6), adds up to an easy-reading defense of Christian belief ("less implausible than any other theory of the universe with which I am acquainted...
...suppose," remarks Robinson in an early letter, "it does look a little queer to see me practically doing nothing at my age." These words touched on the festering sore of his conscience. Robinson could never quite accept the implications of his belief that "dollars are convenient things to have . . . but this diabolical, dirty race that men are running after them disgusts me. . . ." While bravely declaring "business be damned," he ruefully comments that "poetry is a good thing, provided a man is warm enough...