Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former officiary of the Mormon church, he was on surer ground moralizing about what he considers the nation's most pressing problem, the disintegration of the American family. "There has been a decline," he told his fellow Governors, "in the faith, belief and principles on which America was built." The solution? "Personal responsibility, family responsibility and private institutional responsibility-and the place to start is in the home...
...professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence. The antihero, suggests Campbell, is a disease of New York, "a city which is a psychological calamity and which has no connection with the land America." In a very real way, the land America prefers Humphrey Bogart and James Bond. Bogart demonstrates the belief that a man can be tough but tender, ugly but sexy. The Bond syndrome suggests a yearning for the old-fashioned action hero, free from conventional fetters. Says Sociologist Marshall Fishwick of the University of Delaware: "The playboy is a cowboy who has just discovered woman...
Both have made clear their distrust of his assurances that he is not soft on the Viet Cong; both suspect that he would cooperate with the Communists in the mistaken belief that he could later over power them...
...assembly, the new creed is intended to supplement the classic Westminster Confession of 1647. The aim was to draft a new creed that did not abrogate any previous statement of faith accepted by the church, including the Apostles' Creed, but merely supplied a new emphasis to traditional belief...
...originally. The revision includes a stronger statement on Christ's divinity, and "normative witness" became "witness without parallel." Without softening the emphasis on social morality, the revision added a statement on a crucial question of personal morality, deploring "anarchy" in sexual relationships and reaffirming the church's belief in the necessity of faithful, loving marriage. The draft was passed by voice vote and sent to the church's 188 presbyteries for ratification...