Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Utley's conclusion: "Illusions die hard, especially when reputations depend upon their preservation . . . Those who direct United States foreign policy still nurture illusions . . . They have finally turned against Soviet Russia because of Moscow's obvious and implacable hostility to the United States. But ... a lingering belief that Communism is a progressive force when not perverted by Stalin still. . . . prevents the adoption of a realistic Far Eastern policy ... As Confucius said: 'A man who knows he has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake...
According to Wilder, "Mob Dick" represents a challenge to America's belief in "a gradual man-propelled amelioration." Melville's book, he said, is set apart from European literature because of its individualism, its abstractness, and its lack of "a sense...
That brought up the question foremost in many a Senator's mind: MacArthur's statement to Congress that Russia "would not necessarily mesh her actions to ours." Explained MacArthur: "My own belief is that the Soviet has two great choices-this perhaps oversimplifies, but it will illustrate my thought. Those two great choices are: first, whether he, at some time or other, is going to attack or not. The second choice is the reverse of that: whether he is not going to attack. He knows, just as well as you and I know, that we are not going...
...interpret the theological issue in the poll's terms, 245 parishioners declared that people "by nature" are "good" or "more apt to be good than bad"; only 21 could bring themselves to say that people are by nature "bad." But 272 were firmly orthodox in declaring their belief in a personal rather than an impersonal God (one came out for no God at all), and 271 accepted the divinity of Christ. (Nineteen checked "a noble man only"; one, "just a symbol of good, like Santa Claus or the Goddess of Liberty...
Bramhall's original motive in showing pictures of themselves making was his belief that this would confidence, but he has not been able make any conclusions as to this in paper, submitted last week for Social 148 (Group Dynamics...