Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berceo, Guillen continued, had a simple vision of the relationship of all things in "a single uninterrupted reality. His poetry manifested a belief in which the believer was to be found...
Citizens immediately contacted police in the belief that it was Laika, from outer space. The police refuse to believe that Sputnik II has jettisoned its canine cargo, and attribute it to some airborne joker...
Berceo was, in fact, "the believer par excellence," whose faith in Christ and the Virgin was untainted by doubt. Because of this belief, he was able to write of the lives of saints, the salvation of sinners, the experience of the divine in "an elevated and sublime style...
...basis for a philosophy, neither he nor his successors realized that he actually was assuming that "his private certitude was everyman's certitude in kind." Modern men, taking him at face value, not only plunged "into his subjective depths"; they also tended to accept his belief that the physical universe is merely a mathematical process devoid of purpose and quality or any rapport with man. "With this abandonment of man's native rapport with the whole, the nerve of worth in his own living and acting silently ceases to function. Here, I venture to think, is the root...
There is only one thing remarkable about this book: it smells. Evidently in the belief that the practice of reading has become hopelessly discredited, Doubleday has tried the desperate expedient of dousing Scent of Cloves in some odorous compound that purports to be scent of cloves. Whether packs of osmophile readers will go like beagles into bookstores snuffing the spoor is questionable...