Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctant support." Professional opinion samplers documented the confusion. A survey by social scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford University found that most Americans still share a visceral instinct that the U.S. should not withdraw. How ever, said Western Pollster Don Muchmore, "there is a complete lack of belief that we can win. People wish we'd never gotten in, but say we've got to continue to help South Viet Nam." The Gallup poll reported that between January and April the proportion of those queried who approve Johnson's Viet Nam policy decreased from...
...only asks states and cities to do more on their own, but challenges the concept that governmental power is a one-level reservoir from which every cup drawn by Washington means a loss for someone else. Instead, as Max Ways wrote in FORTUNE, "creative federalism starts from the contrary belief that total power -private and public, individual and organizational-is expanding very rapidly...
Ethical Culturists wince at being labeled atheists, but their basic premise is that man can help build himself a better society based on a rational morality and human cooperation without reference to belief in God. Founder of the movement was Felix Adler, a rabbi's son and professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell, who reluctantly decided that there was no hope of reforming Judaism from within. Giving up religious practice, Adler in 1876 undertook a series of Sunday morning lectures on contemporary moral issues. Among his early followers was Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation...
Intellectual Leadership. Like Adler, most members in the New York Society have always been dissident Jews, who shared his belief that religious dogmatism leads only to strife. Elsewhere in the U.S., Ethical Culturists are mostly ex-Protestants, with a sprinkling of former Roman Catholics. Intellectual standards are high; a majority of the societies' 5,500 members are college graduates...
...moral purpose might help alleviate the sorrows of existence. Without forsaking its tradition of activism, the society is concerned about the intellectual problem of articulating a system of moral values and standards that can survive an age of relativism. More than ever, Ethical Culture stands firm in its belief that the society will always be a haven for spiritually minded men and women who desire to serve humanity without serving divinity as well...