Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminar will be President Emeritus James B. Conant, who will address a general assembly on the topic, "Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum." According to Miss Marjorie H. Nicholson, chairman of the conference's arrangement committee, Conant's speech is of particular importance because of "the pyramiding belief that the teaching of modern languages is as vital to America's future as the teaching of science...
...glanced at the piles of melting snow outside the window, "I've always agreed with something that I think Professor Fairbank said in one of his books, and that was, 'You can't have someone else's disillusions for him.' A democratic government has to be based on that belief...
...prestige in the eyes of other nations. Malik said that "the number of countries which either vote against or abstain with respect to texts sponsored or supported by the U.S. has been on the increase in recent years." Said Romulo, a longtime friend of the U.S.: "The once ingrained belief in the Asian mind of the invincibility, the superiority and the invulnerability of the West is gone, forgotten." The U.S., he said, has lost much Asian good will by confusing "legitimate nationalism" with Communism...
...attributed the awakening to the abolition of the supernatural sphere in the consciousness of modern man, to the individual's loss of identity in modern society, and to the belief in perfectibility in all realms of life...
...hero far beyond the pagan world that Homer's knew. He confronts him with characters reminiscent of Buddha, Christ, Faust and Don Quixote so that Odysseus can try his own view of God and man against theirs. He agrees with none of them, thus underscoring Kazantzakis' belief that each man must make his own spiritual odyssey; no one else can make it for him, no ready-made belief can serve for each individual. The search is one for freedom-freedom from the demands of Odysseus' heart and mind. Kazantzakis seems to say: not until Odysseus is delivered...