Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three days before he died. Written in reply to a group of American artists, writers and scientists who had urged Stevenson to quit, the letter flatly contradicted what some called "the Stevenson tragedy." The group's arguments, Stevenson wrote, "rest on a simple presupposition: that I share your belief in the disastrous trend of American foreign policy. But it is precisely this presupposition that I do not share with you. Whatever criticisms may be made over the details and emphasis of American foreign policy, its purposes and directions are sound. I do not believe the policy of retreat...
...Hanoi sounds, if possible, more arrogantly intransigent than ever. North Viet Nam's government last week made a special point of deriding as "fabricated legend" the breathless U.S. press reports of last month that Hanoi had offered to begin peace talks in late 1964. The Communists' fanatical belief that they will conquer South Viet Nam found expression in the weirdly convoluted Newspeak used by the North Vietnamese regime to defend its aggression: "The whole world, including the American people, now are stirringly supporting the patriotic struggle of the South Vietnamese people. Why, then, have the people in North...
Vatican II has made it clear that the church is ready to abandon "triumphalism," to erase the nonessential traditions that have often kept it from being credible as a moral force in the world at large. Without denying its own belief that it has a special divine mission, Catholicism now acknowledges that it is but one of many spiritual voices with something to tell perplexed modern man. When medieval Popes spoke to Kings and Princes, they listened and obeyed -or ran the risk of excommunication and exile from society. The words of Paul VI and his bishops to Presidents...
...night before, by local belief, demons of death stalked the village of Sotouboua (pop. 500) in northern Togo. Streets were deserted, and only the throb of a tom-tom broke the still ness. Next day the men of the village sallied forth to perform the ritual that is supposed to frighten demons away. Some wore fluttery feather headdresses and grotesque carved masks; others chewed the bark of a native bush until the drool stained their chins a deep orange color. Several of them gripped snakes and rats between their teeth...
Last week the court issued two more decisions-one allowing defendants to waive reindictments, thereby avoiding delay in trial, the other permitting prisoners to use the religious oath as a challenge to jury convictions that are still open to appeal. But judges, too, must declare belief in God. Are nonjury trials before such judges also illegal? Answers to such questions are yet to come-and they are eagerly awaited by Maryland's 5,600 convicts...