Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their joint statement, Dulles and Chiang expressed belief that, in the face of U.S.-Nationalist determination to stand firm, the Reds "will not put their policy to the test of general...
Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Economics Department, said his department also had no plans to reconsider additional measures, and, in fact, stated his belief that "a great many graduate students who stay around for a long time get a great deal out of it." He proposed an increased concentration on the M.A. in order to "produce needed teachers for junior colleges," and asserted that the greatest need of the GSAS was refusing to admit second-rate students, who at present constitute "about 25 per cent" of the enrollment...
Levin defended these reductions, saying, "We have lost very little by this scaling-down of the plans." He expressed a belief that the smaller auditorium was "closer to the ideal for a college theatre...
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 52, Archbishop of Genoa, once known as the "minestrone cardinal" for his soup-kitchen relief work on his city's Communist-infested docks, is noted for his administrative talent and a belief in paternalism toward the workers. He also has a reputation for being severe and authoritarian in manner, is the youngest cardinal...
...following autumn, Wolfe started Mannerhouse, a drama about the decay of old South. He wrote to a friend: "I think my play The House will `pack a punch,' for it is founded on a sincere belief in the essential inequality of things and people, in a sincere belief in men and masters, rather than in men and men, in the sincere belief in some form of human slavery--yes, I mean this...." Wolfe did not finish this play at Harvard. He finished it years later, just before he abandoned drama and started Look Homeward, Angel...