Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their bosoms, a society where the telling of dirty stories and using foul language is commonplace. These things produce sex perverts out of people who have the slightest abnormal tendencies. They are encouraged by everything around them. Until the day society changes its fundamental moral principles and reasserts a belief in God, we will have sex perverts...
Earnest Yearnings. Baring-Gould has more than 130 books to his credit. His sermons alone fill more than 20 volumes. He wrote a 16-volume Lives of the Saints and a weighty treatise on the Origin and Development of Religious Belief that moved Prime Minister Gladstone to award him a crown living (an ecclesiastical appointment at the dispensation of the government). He also wrote 30 novels plus stories and character sketches; he was an active archaeologist, and he busily searched out and transcribed old country songs and ballads, e.g., Widdecombe Fair. He was a staunch High-churchman; there...
...sense, the Jencks-Du Pont cases fell into the pattern set by the Supreme Court in its school-desegregation decisions. There, many friends of desegregation were pained in their belief that the court relied on sociology texts instead of lawbooks and the Constitution of the U.S., believed the same points could have been more firmly made through purely legal reasoning...
...good to his mother and father, and I don't think for one moment that he's conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there ain't no God." On love: "Whether you're a schoolteacher, advertising man or missionary, a great part of love basically will still be sex. Naturally, when I say love...
...practical terms however, there is no chance of this within the foreseeable future. Budgetary considerations and old-fashioned conservatism would prevent any immediate universality for the plan. There is another great factor, a lingering belief that many of the students in the College actually learn more because of the grade stimulus than they would without...