Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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YOUR WERNETTE-POPEJOY ARTICLE FEB. 10 ISSUE DOES SERIOUS AND WHOLLY UNMERITED DAMAGE TO UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO. . . . THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY IN RESIDENCE IS UNANIMOUS IN EXPRESSING FULL CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT-ELECT POPEJOY AND THE FIRM BELIEF THAT PRESENT HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP...
...over the parliamentary system and over majority rule in all spheres of life and consolidation of all politically and productively superior forces of the nation. . . . Naziism intends to bring about the final rebirth of the nation and to safeguard the continuation of existence of the Reich, in the definite belief in its historic mission and in the future of the German people...
...Franz Anton Mesmer developed his controversial technique. It was first called mesmerism and then hypnotism (from a Greek word meaning sleep). In Mesmer's day, "magnetism" was the scientific catchword that "atomic" is today. Mesmer had already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described in two recently published books: Hypnotism Comes of Age, by Bernard Wolfe and Raymond Rosenthal (Bobbs-Merrill; $3), and The Story...
Love, Mercy & Respect. Though retaining his Jewish faith and socialist belief, Gollancz has here written a fiery, almost transported plea for a return to the ways of the early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...
Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, told a Hunt Hall audience last night that a Communist majority in the coming Italian elections would result in a Fascist revolt, although he expressed the belief that the Communists have no chance and "I think they know...