Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much in pure science, but in social doctrines that falsely lay claim to being scientific-Davenport aptly calls them metascience-led Western man to apply mere quantitative measurements to all things. Marxism, as Davenport analyzes it, is grounded in just such metascience, plus 18th-century philosophical absolutism, i.e., the belief that a universal human order should, if necessary, be forced on mankind with the help of guillotine or firing squad. If the U.S. opposes Communism entirely on its own materialist ground and with its own materialist weapons, e.g., by basing policy chiefly on economic appeals and military force...
...statues by other peoples. Among these are the Mohammedans, whose earliest success in Arabia came by overthrowing local idols and thereby calling attention to the universal God. Eastern Christianity was ripped by two great waves of iconoclasm scarcely less thorough than Mohammed's, and resting on the belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians, but the vast majority of Moslems still take very seriously the Mosaic rule against graven images...
Playwright Paddy Chayefsky scatters such sidewalk epiphanies with a liberal hand through this almost too clever script, which he adapted from his own television play. Many of his coins go down the drain and others are too bright and shiny for belief; but at his best this writer, who was born and raised in a Jewish-Italian part of The Bronx, can find the vernacular truth and beauty in ordinary lives and feelings. And he can say things about his people that he could never get away with if he were not a member of the family...
...Before the meeting ends, the professor himself is called out of the hall and arrested by the secret police. A promising young colleague is torn from his career and family, charged with being a "wrecker." Another goes mad, paints himself with red ink in the laboratory courtyard, in the belief that it will make him immune from arrest. The author of One Man in His Time, who used to inform against his colleagues as a "duty,'' recounts the stories with relish. "Every new day," he recalls, "would bring something fresh, exciting, dangerous...
Since the depression, Western nations have accepted the necessity of freer trade. The need for economic strength in the Cold War has only confirmed this belief, yet under the sway of particular interests, the United States has failed to lower its tariffs on many products manufactured by her allies. Consequently, despite forty billion dollars spent in aid, these countries can neither develop industrially nor purchase needed American products. The result is often a lower standard of living and resentment of "Yankee imperialism." Besides weakening Western defense in general, high tariffs have hurt American exporters in particular, since some foreign markets...