Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means that there is a pervading reluctance to take sides on any issue. "I find an almost excessive lack of bias on television," says Howard K. Smith. "We are afraid of a point of view. We stick to the old American belief that there is an objectivity. If a man says the world is round, we run out to find someone to say it is flat." Network executives are also quick to delete any portion of a news program that might offend any powerful segment of the audience. Top management, said the late Edward R. Murrow, "with a few notable...
Changes Beyond Belief. Those women who own them now swear by them. Their appeal is based, first of all, on comfort. Short skirts have made even knee crossing an ordeal; pants allow lounging any old way. Nancy Sinatra, who owns half a dozen pants suits, thinks they are ideal for traveling and shopping -as well as dancing. Says she: "I practically live in them." Sandra Dee sees nothing incongruous about wearing them as she rides about Los Angeles in her Rolls. Wellesley Senior Chris Godfrey finds them the perfect outfit when gallants pick her up for a date...
Until recently, Southern Congressmen who denounced the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's stringent new guidelines for school desegregation received a sympathetic hearing only from other Southerners. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has now joined in the criticism of HEW, apparently in the belief that continued prodding for integration anywhere will succor a white backlash everywhere. The result of Mansfield's statement that the department is pushing integration "too fast" can only be to slow down the pace of school desegregation in the South, -- a pace that is and has always been unconscionably slow...
Pusey said, but the mounting problem now is that "belief itself is consciously eschewed. We have all become doubting Thomases." Although most men "want to believe in something worthy of belief, many simply cannot or will not find this something in Christianity." It is ironic, Pusey added, that just when men are becoming cynical about much of contemporary culture, Christianity is being diluted by "a new kind of humanism...
...suspect that the subtitles we are given (which quite properly reproduce Shakespeare rather than re-translating Pasternak) are in many cases non-literal. If they are literal, the staging of this film is preposterous beyond belief. As Polonius delivers his parting advice to Laertes, and as we read his banal, senile lines, what we see is a purposeful, vigorous man hustling his son to the door in no uncertain manner. When Hamlet first plays mad for Polonius, his final "Except my life," appears to be addressed to the old man's parting back. It just doesn...