Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone professing belief in "democracy" at the same time seriously defend Russian conduct in the Balkans...
...Neill's belief that it is better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm; he finds that it presently wears itself out. It is the same, he feels, with other repressions. At Summerhill, the worst behaved children are always the newcomers, because, of course, they have been most repressed. New pupils often work out their repressed hate of their elders by biting, scratching, swearing interminably and "being generally anti-social." Says Mrs. Neill: "A small boy will sometimes walk in here, fix me with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn...
...influence of these cynics is increased by the traditional American faith in the infallibility of the written word. Our Constitutional experience has bred a belief that once an organization has been set up, and its rules put on paper, things will practically run themselves. But events in the U.N. are demonstrating that the problem of maintaining peace is more than just finding the magic formula and writing it into the law of nations. The struggle for peace and security is a continuing one. The next few months may well be crucial in the formation of the public opinion that will...
High blood pressure causes one-third of all U.S. deaths. Doctors have long considered it one of the most dangerous diseases of 20th Century civilization, and one of the least understood. They may have to modify the latter belief, for a group of British scientists have turned up what looks like a solid clue to the disease. Their discovery: high blood pressure seems to be due to a "short-circuiting" of blood circulation in the kidneys, caused by too much nervous excitement...
...know, according to Edmond Taylor, that journalists, political scientists and diplomats have built up a mythical picture of the political world: 1) by talking about issues instead of human beings, 2) by looking at the world from the distorting point of view of U.S. interests, 3) by creating a belief in "the certitude of certainty...