Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respond to heroic student initiatives, as they often do not, there tends to ensue a further loss of faith in democracy. But the erosion of democratic thinking among student radicals has been going on since 1964. Some suppose that the intellectuals will have to lead the revolution themselves. This belief tends to legitimize individual acts of terrorism...
...most dangerous thing in the world is a state of mine--the belief among powerful men on both sides, in the face of all the horrendous evidence to the contrary, that somehow the scientists will yet fins a way to employ nuclear weapons so that military men may again...
Wrong Reasons. The trouble is that a large portion of those 30 million viewers who watched the Academy Award ceremonies last week still cling to the Modern Screen belief that the Oscars are given for merit. Sadly, they are sometimes not even given in gratitude. For all his contributions to the industry, Gary Grant has never won an Oscar. Nor has Charlie Chaplin, nor Orson Welles, nor Paul Newman. Even when the Oscar is given to a deserving recipient, it is frequently for the wrong reasons...
Since arriving in the United States last July, I have been consistently appalled at the number of Americans who regard the London Times an authoritative and well-informed newspaper. Those at Harvard who have held this belief might look at the editorial of April 17, biliously entitled "Not the Harvard Way," and note the following passage...
Although most of the Faculty members who spoke against the new AAS plan on Tuesday argued that it would set a precedent for other departments, Rosovsky said that his action was "not motivated by academic conservatism." Instead, it came from a "belief that basic changes in educational policy should be studied carefully and considered in a calm atmosphere," he said...