Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belief in Ineguality...
...most important changes which adoption of the report would establish lie in the composition of the Council's membership. The Council's existence has rested on the democratic but unrealistic belief that it is the spearhead of student opinion. Elections affording an ambitious, personally motivated politician the opportunity to capitalize on undergraduate apathy do not result in true representation. With elections under the new House and Class constituency proposal, students may still have to elect politicians-but they will know their politicians better...
Since the church officially believes in angels, many reasoned, then why not devils? Said Canon Evan Burrough of Oxford: "I have a profound belief in angels and therefore in demons or evil spirits. I believe that the majority of patients in our mental hospitals are really possessed by demons rather than suffering diseases of the mind...
...Voyeur is a savage but pointless reaction against the psychological novel. Instead of probing the mind, the book nearly ignores it, and concentrates on the exact description of things. In accordance with Author Robbe-Grillet's belief that objects are more important than people. The island, a barroom, a bedroom, are etched into the reader's mind, while the story itself and the characters are allowed to go hang. Sooner or later, Robbe-Grillet or one of his disciples is bound to write a novel about a roomful of furniture; the affair between the armchair and the ottoman...
...very interesting to note that Harvard Student Council's decision to withdraw from the United States National Student Association was based on the belief that "Harvard's problems were of a 'different' nature from those at other colleges...