Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also aging. Practically all of the top men are first-stage revolutionaries who made the Long March, the retreat from Chiang Kai-shek's armies for 6,000 miles from east China to the barren northwest in 1934-35. They are afflicted with the "Yenan complex"-a belief in absolute, rigid adherence to the methods by which they survived and ultimately attained power. There are some among the Chinese leadership who clearly have doubts about the present course of Chinese policy, which is leading to a growing isolation of China; most of them are among the "new generation" that...
...condensation of my views on teaching, I was quoted as not believing in "a libidinous relationship [between teacher and student] such as they have at Sarah Lawrence." I was discussing not sex mores, but teaching ethos. I expressed my belief that it is better for teaching to be problem-centered than, as at Sarah Lawrence, person-centered, and that the basic tie between teacher and student should therefore be intellectual, not libidinal. The discussion focused on how to encourage the love of learning, not on the learning of love. Sarah Lawrence, please excuse...
Died. Charles Howard, 69, a fat, hearty apple grower whose unshaken belief in Santa Clans led him in 1937 to start a school for St. Nicks in Albion, N.Y., teaching all-round jolliness, beard upkeep and child psychology, all of which he practiced himself in Manhattan as Macy's incomparable Santa for 15 years; of a pulmonary embolism; in Newfane...
...example, Damon's findings have contradicted the common belief that baldness, a sex-linked characteristic, is assoociated with virility. In a selected group of 1300 subjects, he found that degree of baldness made no significant difference in the number or sex of children...
Between Liver & Gall. Another issue is Methodism's approach to ethics-whether to hold fast to the belief that the business of the church is solely with individual piety or face up to the problem of man in society. "People don't see that making human life human is part of salvation," says Methodist Minister Tex Sample of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. "They've got the idea that salvation is a kind of good feeling between your liver and your gall bladder." Long Beach Pastor Paul Woudenberg hoots that the typical renewal preacher "heads into...