Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberal folklore regarded Chinese Communists as humanitarians who would rather re-educate criminals than punish them. Reports of purges inside China under the new Red penal code have brushed away most vestiges of this belief. Shih Liang, Red China's woman Minister of Justice, in recent instructions to her courts finally laid it to rest...
...chief characters, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
...play is concerned with the gradual disillusionment and final disintegration of an imprisoned communist's once-powerful belief in the party. It is adapted from the novel by Arthur Koestler...
...great talent is nevertheless a kind of simplicity: the ability to reduce all the vast complexities to simple terms -the belief that the right machines, manned by the right men and operated by the right principles, can do almost anything. For Charles Wilson those right principles can be summed up just as simply in a phrase often misused and often self-consciously avoided. He is not in the least ashamed of talking about the American Way of Life...
Thought & Belief. Nowadays, pretty close to being the recognized No. 1 citizen of Dallas, Umphrey Lee is a busy man. He belongs to such potent organizations as the Citizens' Council, the organization of businessmen without whom nothing can be done in Dallas, and the ultra-select Thirteen Club, a group of 13 who get together periodically to hash over world and local problems. Nonsmoking, nondrinking, Lee has no advice to thrust on those who do. He likes to tell of one friend who drinks deeply and then often calls Lee up to tell him what's wrong with...