Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who follow the popular line of thought. It is not a privilege, to be awarded or taken away at will. It is a means, a method, whereby we can best reach truth about the ways of man and the universe. We cannot be certain of any fact or belief that we hold to be true, says Mill, and we must therefore constantly allow those who disagree to have their say. Further, he argues, it is not sufficient to present an opponent's argument for him. You must allow him to present it in all its force and appeal...
...There are no sacred cows in our barn. Democracy is predicated upon the belief in the many, rather than control by the few. However modest our pages, they are dedicated to informing the many about these few. For the way to make America great is to let the people know...
This cautious desire to be "well fixed" and a little more has many causes: the war; the lingering shock of the Big Depression (which this younger generation felt or heard about in its childhood); and the hard-to-kill belief (still expounded in some college economics courses) that the frontiers of the U.S. economy have been reached...
...healthy revolt in James Jones's From Here to Eternity was really a massively reiterated gripe against life. But Jones is not the only young writer to wallow in a world of seemingly private resentments. Most of his fellow writers suffer from what has become their occupational disease: belief that disappointment is life's only certainty. The young writers of the '205 were at least original enough to create personal styles. Today the young writer's flair sometimes turns out to be nothing more than a byproduct of his neuroses...
Marxism seems dead among the U.S. young; belief in democracy is strong but inarticulate. The one new movement that has begun in the younger generation is what Poet-Professor Peter Viereck calls the revolt against revolt-an attempt to give youth a conservative credo to stand up against the bankrupt but lingering political radicalism...