Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average . . . American college girls who want to go through life with the belief that sex is a beautiful thing. Marilyn Monroe has done more to lower the standards of womanhood in the eyes of both men & women than any one person in history. JANET EGELSTON REBECCA CHURCH EDITH LYDAY Mars Hill...
Ever since 1531, when, according to pious belief, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared miraculously to a humble convert, Mexico has revered her. Her image, which emerged wondrously on the convert's poor cloak as a sign of the authenticity of his vision, is the country's most honored shrine. Last month, for a huge mural on Mexican theatrical history, ex-Communist Artist Diego Rivera solemnly sketched the famed comedian Cantinflas in his trademark-uniform, a shabby coat, and then drew the Virgin on the coat. "Sacrilege!" protested Mexico's devout, while Rivera, ignoring the uproar, diligently filled...
Universities might be swept away if "the feeling that you do not care about truth, you want safety," becomes common enough, Bundy allowed, but he asserted his belief in the present strength of their position...
Sovereign Trust. In pursuing this policy, Rhee may well be moved by real distrust of Korea's manipulating politicians. But there is something more to his actions than counter-manipulation: his passionate belief that he governs by sovereign right conferred on him by the Korean people. This belief he clearly demonstrated in his row with the National Assembly last year. According to Korea's five-year-old constitution, the Assembly elects the President. Rhee's term being about to expire, the Assembly wished to exercise its constitutional right. Since the majority were opposed to Rhee, this meant...
...first, the Joachimite movement grew slowly. The church condemned Joachim's writings and put down a flurry of Joachimism among some of the Franciscans.* Through religion, the Third Realm entered Russia in the idea of Moscow as "The Third Rome," a last and higher state on earth. (Belief in the Third Rome was welcomed by the czars, used politically by them, and is manipulated by Kremlin propagandists today...