Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Altar of Heaven, according to ancient Chinese belief, was the center of the universe. But it was carefully placed in a remote corner of the city, as if to keep the greatness of the universe from interfering with the grandeur of Peking...
...their part, many psychiatrists suffer from an anti-religious bias that is part of the "general positivistic atmosphere of our time," said Dr. Stern-"the belief that science is the only fountain of truth and that revelation is bunk." Some would go so far as to say that scientific progress has made religion obsolete. Others, more moderate, blame religion and its moral codes for causing neurotic anxiety based on feelings of guilt...
...Maybe Japan and Canada might be included, he added blandly. Russia's Molotov, on his way to San Francisco for the U.N. celebration, dropped down on Paris for lunch with Premier Edgar Faure. Reportedly Molotov suggested that Russia and France have many interests in common-such as a belief that a divided Germany is safer than a whole...
...remained off campus, educators and scientists flooded the state government with protests. The West German press blasted him with editorials, devoting more space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schlüter is not accused of a false belief of yesterday but of wrong actions today. These actions are opposed to the idea of freedom." Last week, bowing to this wave of protest, Schlüter resigned as Minister of Culture...
...plastic? Are you always able to fit in?" Author Whitman is a Nova Scotia-born magazine writer, wife of a teacher and mother of two grown children. On lecture tours, she has long attacked this slowly hardening concept of man as "a million divided by a million." Even a belief in the existence of the "common man" can be dangerous, for men are apt to behave as they are expected to, and the common man may become deadly common - conformist putty in the hands of science and society. He does not want to stick his neck...