Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orchestra and soloists that has sometimes been used in Czech Catholic liturgical ceremonies. The Mass was a salute to nature, not God, and as usual Janáček's critics missed the point. After its premiere, one wrote sardonically that "the old man" was apparently turning to belief in God. Janáček answered with a bristling postcard: "No old man, no believer. Not till I see for myself." Janáček stuck by his unbeliefs till the last. As he lay dying, a nurse asked him if he would like to make his peace with...
TURNING to activists, Blaine attributed a large measure of their frustration to "the relatively permissive upbringing to which [they] have been subjected . . . Inconsistency and softness . . . results in the . . . belief that authority can be bent or gotten around. It is infuriating to meet a stone wall when one had expected . . . a soft hedge...
WOODY was a living vindication of Blake's belief that Beauty is Exuberance. This humane, generous, ebullient teacher and artist possessed no fugitive greatness. No man can hope to surpass G. Wallace Woodworth's inextinguishable charity and concern to bring people into loving commerce with the most capaciously communicative of the arts...
...firm belief that the Redevelopment Authority is at the present time at a critical point in the determination of its future direction." Sullivan said, noting that the CRA was currently involved in four urban renewal projects with a potential investment of $500 million...
Viewing homosexuality as a "condition" uncovers our implicit belief that a natural part of self for many (perhaps most) men is bad because it does not fit our myth of the "normal" man. We live in a world where a man may kill another man but he may not kiss another man on the television screen viewed by our children. Natural urges thus emerge in ugly, distorted form...