Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholastic tradition to see its realism brought out of the catacombs and applied. Education, public or private, grades or college, is epitomized by Utopianism (your excellent example, UNism). Even our educators are beginning to admit our educational system is goalless, its fruits: nationalism and relativism, and this dream belief in "the perfectibility of man," quickly shattered by the evidence of our senses. The principles of Dostoevski's Grand Inquisitor are gratefully accepted-just give us bread, and never mind freedom and responsibility...
...progress: "The attempt to lift up men's hearts by a belief in progress seems to me like the wish for spiritualism or miracles, to rest on not taking a large enough view or going far enough back...
...refusing to cooperate with the Velde and Jenner committees the witnesses are asserting their constitutional right to freedom of speech, belief, conscience and assembly. The Supreme Court has not consented to hear such First Amendment claims in recent cases involving congressional investigations. That is not a reason for failing to assert rights which the individual citizen believes that he possesses. The denial of certiorari, we are told repeatedly, is not an adjudication by the Supermen Court. The Court has frequently changed its mind in the past where it has come to realize the significance of the problem presented...
...states that persons may not be required to act as witnesses against themselves. It is particularly appropriate to assert the privilege here since it had its origins in the protection of political and religious dissidence in the Puritan period in England. The First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, belief and religion were protected by the Puritans' refusal to bear witness against themselves in proceedings before the High Commission and the Star Chamber of England...
...Degree of Agony. Unlike most Englishmen, Francis Thompson had not the least desire to travel, and never so much as crossed the Channel. If he ever felt sexual desire, it was lost in his belief that "all human love ... is a symbol of divine love," and should be treated accordingly. Not all the women he met understood this -particularly the mothers of unmarried daughters. Author Meynell prints the unconsciously funny letter of one anxious mother who feared that her daughter might succumb to Poet Thompson. "It is not in her nature to love you; but I see no reason...