Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more widely atomic information is distributed the greater the risk will be that some information will get into unfriendly hands. The justification for accepting such risks lies in confidence in the potentialities of American industry. It rests on the belief that the information which must be declassified will produce greater advances by American industry than the increased "leakage" of information will produce behind the Iron Curtain. I submit that this belief is justified by the past performance of American industry...
...basic non-tenet of the world organization is to rid the world of the unfavorable association nihilism has received through various political actions in the 1870's. We are firmly dedicated to the non-belief that if any philosophy has the opportunity of becoming the belief of the 20th century, it is nihilism...
...firmest conclusion to be drawn from the testimony of Harvey Matusow before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee is that nothing he says is worthy of belief. It follows from this that if testimony by Matusow has been material in the conviction of any person, that conviction should be set aside. Certainly no one should be held guilty of any offense on the testimony of a self-confessed liar. It does not follow, however, that testimony from all former Communists is in the same category as Matusow's testimony. All such witnesses are suspect, and the Government should...
Riverboat Devil. What Melville aims at in these episodes is a scathing, nihilistic critique of every reigning belief of 19th century America: shallow assumptions about perpetual progress, Christian hypocrisy and pretensions, easy optimism about man, nature and the universe, Emersonian uplift and self-seeking self-reliance, and the hard-driving spirit of commerce in all things. But Melville will not stop until he can debunk the goodness and glory of God. In a final episode, an old man sits reading the Bible by the light of a solitary lamp. A young sharper (not the confidence-man) exposes...
Beyond his dislike of crisis, Ike had another inhibition about politics: like many military men and civilians, he believed that military life has few lessons relevant to civilian politics. Ike in 1953 thought that, as a military man, the complexities of civilian politics were beyond him; this belief strengthened his natural inclination to leave politics to the politicos. Actually, as commander of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II and later as NATO commander, his greatest successes were political. He probably knows more about the intimate political workings of more nations than any other individual in the Western...