Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Dartmouth faculty members favored General Eisenhower 73 to 47 in a poll conducted Sunday. The student body, late last week, had indicated strong pre-Eisenhower support. The final total showed Eisenhower almost a 3 to 1 choice by the students, although half of those supporting him expressed the belief that Stevenson would win the election...
...drags when you sit and wait for something to happen." Reed's account of an Easter sermon, preached at a clearing leveled by a bulldozer the day before: "The chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time of great uncertainty, here was a man who was certain." Weeks later, Houston's leading Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Charles King, devoted his own sermon to Soldier Reed's text...
...letter said, however, that Fairchild had "a better than even chance of defeating McCarthy." Pointing to the fact that Fairchild is "the biggest Democratic vote-getter in Wisconsin history," the professors expressed the belief that with the expected half million increase in the November vote over the total of the September primaries, two third of which consistently goes Democratic, Fairchild is "by no means in the hopeless position which many observers suppose...
THERE was really nothing mysterious about Santayana's line: he was a psychologist rather than a philosopher. Like the early Greeks, he was a strict materialist who used philosophy to organize the world in a practical way. He had the profound Spanish belief in the vital part to be played by custom. What he aimed at was the discovery of a civilized and permissible attitude toward life. So he saw religion as a useful myth, not because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal...
...Santayana's sprawling political work, Dominations and Powers, which he published in his old age, it can only be said that all readers seem to have been lost in its noble but confusing labyrinth. The old Spanish-Catholic belief in mystical authority came out in it; nothing could be less congenial to Western thought. Subjective philosophy, intuition, essence, had so thoroughly "gone out" that, while the sweep of Santayana's mind was admired, he seemed to be saying nothing seizable. His true role lay in being a civilized hermit on the adjacent hill, the sage apart, the skeptical...