Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frondizi said he would ask Congress for an "ample and generous" political amnesty, under which "all political parties can freely function." He thus made payment on his political debt to the Peronistas, but was also living up to his deep personal belief that no one should be persecuted for political ideas. He praised the military for their "historic service to democracy," but warned them to stay out of politics from...
...will go to the war when it comes?") and the Chorus of Wounded Soldiers ("Wait for the ragged soldiers") in the final scene. But overall, the music was too fragmented to be effective, or to redeem the curiously Panglossed-over view that marred the libretto : the apparent belief that Schweik's numskullery is a kind of nobility, and his doglike devotion the only logical defense against the depravity around...
...Israelities go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! the sectarianism at Harvard may be less crude than at the Rhode Island college, but sectarianism is basically the same everywhere--a blind and blinding belief which will not permit the sectarian to make free use of accumulating knowledge or other evidence which disproves or casts doubt on the basis of the belief...
...conspiracy of silence seems as prevalent among educators as among others. The president of the West Liberty State College of West Virginia wrote me that he approved of Truth First discussion groups in religion but that the discussion should never question doctrine or belief. Reminds us of the cautious mother who readily gave her daughter permission to go swimming, then added "hang your clothes on a hickory limb but don't go near the water...
...program at Yale destroys the very essence of the House or College system," Finley added. "At the present time there are some inequalities among the Houses," he said. However, he expressed the belief that the possible construction of towers for "our little Versailles-on-the-Charles" would end any disparity...