Word: belief
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Great Emancipator explained that the seeds for his sexual theory of perfect conception through mental purity came from his mother, who had four children. He has taken 30 years to develop it. Gates noted that what his theory needs to get it going is a catalyst--belief by only a small percentage of women...
...following consists of excerpts from a letter sent by Chao-Chu Chi '52, formerly of Eliot House, to some of his friends at Harvard. After living in this country for ten years Chao returned to his home in China last summer. The CRIMSON publishes this letter in the belief that it is of general interest to Harvard students...
...outstanding efforts to promote Christian reunion, the Episcopal Church has over & over again officially insisted, and still does, that a united church, in order to be faithful to the past and competent for Christ today, must subscribe in statement of belief to the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, which indicates that those Creeds are of requirement for its own people. If there be any Episcopal ministers who "are embarrassed by most of the Apostles' Creed," they obviously do not belong in that Communion, and nobody who is informed thinks they represent that Communion in what they write...
Beckmann liked to repeat the familiar mystical idea that the man who penetrates the visible world deeply enough will see the invisible. That belief led him to produce richly symbolic art, which struck the Nazis as "degenerate." They hounded him from his native Germany to Amsterdam, where he painted in hiding throughout the war. In 1947, when he was 63, Beckmann came to the U.S. to teach-first at St. Louis' Washington University and later at the Brooklyn Museum School. He urged his students to paint from the heart, yet never hesitated to correct their efforts with a loaded...
...British are not a complaining lot, but over & over I heard Britons, recalling some prewar incident or practice, sadly say that they never expect to see so happy a time again. Bound with this is a pathetic belief that things will be better for their children, a belief that is stoutly and desperately held...