Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Universities, he said, "It is my belief that the methods of certain of the social sciences have already been developed to a point where studies of society by competent scholars can provide basic information to assist the leaders of industry and of education...
...marked by carcasses and bleached bones of camels slaughtered by Kazak wanderers for the water in their stomachs. Tough Moslem soldiers with us shot down desert antelope and huang yang, or yellow sheep. One marksman quickly slashed his quarry's jugular and guzzled the hot blood in the belief that this conveyed to him huang yang's keen eyesight. We preferred to quench our thirst more prosaically with Sinkiang's wonderfully succulent melons, bought at oasis towns along...
Cops and jailers, by & large, have a rooted belief in the therapeutic value of a punch to the jaw or belly. Drunks, for instance, have a way of becoming much less troublesome if they are slapped around a little. Desk sergeants are always having trouble with smart guys who want to argue; jerking them across the desk and belting them across the jowls usually makes them good as gold. Then there are characters who don't want to talk at all-until they have ricocheted off the walls a few times...
...interpretation, Dear Judas is provocative enough. It portrays a Judas who loves Jesus but finds Him grown too fond of power. This Judas betrays Jesus-in the belief that He will only be jailed for a day or two-to avert His later being seized as a revolutionist and killed. This new motive in a Biblical character brings no new drama to the story; indeed, the story has almost no drama, new or old. Read as a poem, Dear Judas has some effective if showy verse; recited as a play, it is almost as hard to follow as to enjoy...
...there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." It might be added that belief cannot be coerced...