Word: belief
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...unique quality of U.S. democracy, said Conant, is its belief in equality of opportunity in a fluid society. High inheritance taxes "reflect the American belief in a fluid society without a hereditary privileged class. . . . High taxes on earned incomes have the reverse effect ... on the fluidity of our society. Therefore, insofar as the national expenditures permit, the case for keeping income taxes low is overwhelming, both in terms of social ideals and incentives." The present system of taxation, Conant warned, "is having a profound effect on the incentives which thus far in our history have contributed to the taking...
Scratch a football coach, and you generally find a man who fancies himself an amateur psychologist. Among Crisler's homemade convictions is the belief that a coach's approach to his players should vary with their national origins. Italian boys, he says, need encouragement because they are lethargic in action. Scandinavians are the hardest to stir up ("I begin needling them on Tuesday"). He plasters the locker-room wall with cautionary signs. This season the warnings are directed against overconfidence. Says one: "There are no savings deposits in football. It's what you do in each game...
...Belief in the omnipotent effects of this cure-all reforms a corrupt mayor, causes his daughter to see the light, and returns to the Mudhens their ace pitcher after an ill-started affair with an evil member of the opposing team. Sweetness, light, and reform are spread among all the citizenry...
Unitarians crave a creed like a hole in the head. It is their boast that no member of their Association (they do not call it a church) could ever be tried for heresy. But Unitarians sometimes find that their cautiously passionate belief in free thinking does not accent the unity in Unitarianism...
...good Roman Catholic doubts the importance of belief. And he has little excuse for doubt about how his beliefs apply to his relationships with God or his neighbor. Can a good Roman Catholic, then, approve of Communism? The answer is no. Can he wholeheartedly endorse free private enterprise? The answer is still no.* Diocesan study groups and Catholic labor schools are doing their best to fight Communism with something more than exorcism and epithets. Last week one of the leaders in this field, Jesuit Father William J. Smith, director of Brooklyn's Crown Heights Labor School, explained his church...