Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorized accelerated promotion for exceptionally meritorious work. Charged the committee: "No such promotion has been made since the passage of the act." New Blood. Then the committee turned to the critical problem of recruitment. The Foreign Service has been retarded, said the Wriston group, "by a persistent belief that promotion from the bottom is the only true incentive," although private business has found that "late starters of high ability often enrich the base and bring fresh incentive into the jaded middle years...
...laments the passing of those "merry," "wanton" days. True, he went on to make a heap of money on Broadway and in Hollywood, but this, he says, was cold comfort because he suffered terribly from "a nostalgia for poverty." He gets some comfort out of the somewhat mistaken belief that until he spoke up in 1939 "no voice of any importance anywhere" had protested against Hitler's butchery of Jews. He is also proud of having backed Palestine's Irgun terrorists so vigorously that he found "British spies among the early irises" of his Nyack garden and became...
...Faxon declined to answer all other questions posed by the School Committee, on the ground that such interrogation invaded his privacy of political belief...
...when religion is stripped of these two features, when emphasis is placed instead upon the rich heritage of thought and value common to all sects, religion can be as much an intellectual discipline as law or mathematics, as much a rationally defensible belief as Freudianism or economic determinism...
...United States by membership... in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the KuKlux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action by way of the formations of... conspiracies to advocate and to take steps in an attempt to replace our democratic form of government with a totalitarian state...