Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, there was general optimism then. The basis for it was the belief that the balloon would soon level off and that it would finally land, on higher ground than it had rested on before the war, but in a stable position nevertheless. But last week, despite all sorts of order-shouting and lever-jerking, prices were still going up like the balloon that carried Aeronaut Ira Thurston out over Lake Erie...
...library that today costs $1,250,000 a year to run began in 1638 with 400 books that young John Harvard brought with him from England. In spite of one testy librarian's belief that "students take books to their chambers and teare out pictures ... to adorne their walls," John Harvard's library grew into the finest in the Colonies. Then, on a stormy night in 1764, it burned to the ground. From John Harvard's collection, only one book - -John Downham's Christian Warfare Against the Deuill World and Flesh-was saved...
Said Katherine Anne Porter: "The Hemingway 'school' has run its course. Renunciation of moral ideas, belief in violence and love and fear of death can only go so far. [Serious writers] are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster which has taken place, to a point where it seems the individual voice doesn't matter. So many write small novels of bewildered souls trying to figure their way out. The trouble with proletarian novels is that they're written from the outside looking in. And what Freud has done! Those little case histories. Freud...
...People don't understand that it's possible to believe in a thing and ridicule it at the same time," says Auden. "It's hard for them, too, to see that a poem's statement of belief is no proof of belief, any more than a love poem is a proof that one is in love...
Sometimes Herald readers try to pin Dan Poling down on his exact shade of belief. In the current issue someone asked flatly whether he is a modernist or a fundamentalist. After hedging a bit, he blithely suggested that perhaps he is a "gentle fundamentalist." Dr. Dan has little time for pondering the subtleties of his religion -he is much too busy working...