Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...element of pursuit is strong in all of Greene's work. Here, James' mother refuses to tell all in the belief that it is best to let sleeping dogs lie. So James pursues his long-lost uncle and the old widow of a discharged gardener, who have relevant information. But it is really his own past that James is pursuing...
LONG before the civil rights bill worked its way into the headlines, TIME'S Congressional Correspondent James L. McConaughy Jr. caught wind of a story. Contrary to Washington belief, the Administration's civil rights bill was in for real trouble because of something called a "jury trial amendment" (TIME, May 6). Thus forewarned, McConaughy and other TIME correspondents sleuthed the progress of civil rights from secret conference to secret caucus to be ready and waiting to provide both the behind-the-scenes story and knowing coverage when the story broke into historic debate. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Surprising Defeat...
...press has greatly expanded coverage of economic issues since World War II, but business news is still skimped and segregated by most dailies in the obdurate belief that it is a specialized concern of a special few. This assumption flies in the face of an unparalleled broadening of popular interest in business. Whether as consumers, taxpayers, stockholders, homeowners, union members, employees or businessmen, newspaper readers are concerned as never before with the economic fronts that affect their pocketbooks. Millions of readers, for example, have a direct stake in blow-by-blow coverage of inflation and its many-faceted causes...
...That the young in those countries, blinkered and intellectually constricted from birth, should nevertheless express these needs is, in my belief, yet another manifestation of the workings of the law of nature or, as it became known in medieval times...
...confused with the "natural law" of Rousseau and others, which holds roughly that natural law is to be found closest to the "state of nature," i.e., in primitive societies, leading to the belief that civilized institutions have corrupted the natural goodness of man and that virtue can best be restored by "artificial or arbitrary" systems derived from man's primitive appetites. Communism and socialism are among the descendants of Rousseau...