Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they have ever known. The Union, says Boyer, has gotten the men something they can put in their wallets, and in their stomachs. It has given them something to think about, a purpose. But more important, it has done something for the people as people, restoring to them a belief in themselves and in the possibilities of social action. There is a new kind of man in America, the union man. He is the forecast of our future. Of this Boyer is sure. He is sure that the modern union movement means a sea change in the American collective personality...
Firm in his Confucian belief in the necessity of social harmony, Chen is convinced that what he most hates in Communism is belief in the necessity of the class struggle: "Communism in China will fail because it creates an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust within the family." Chen says he is not opposed to Socialism. He points to the Three People's Principles of Sun Yat-sen-San Min Chu I-nationalism, democracy and livelihood for the people. To him, the "People's Livelihood'' principle means, one day, social insurance, free health services and schools everywhere...
...belief . . . that 'education is the salvation of democracy' has proved to be naive and fallacious. . . . The German universities were . . . among the best in the world. . . . It was the total absence of any [democratic training] that made it impossible for the Germans . . . to understand or to practice democracy...
...opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same belief-compelling recklessness...
...south is the surest demonstration I know that masses of men still believe there remains something better in their world than they have found under Communism. There are signs that the American administration in Korea knows its opportunity-to give some 20 million Koreans sound justification for that belief...