Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born Bishop Simons, who has been a missionary in India since 1935, expects that he will be asked to resign his see as a result of the book, which he wrote out of intellectual conviction. "Having come to the conclusion that I could prove that the Church's belief in infallibility is mistaken," he explains, "I felt I had no choice but to publish my case." The book will unquestionably be studied with care in the Vatican, since Bishop Simons says flatly that "a scrutiny of the traditional arguments seems to prove that the very structure of infallibility...
...ideal state from which America had subsequently declined. For them the new democratic institutions established between 1776 and 1787 had been born of European theory, and flourished in America only with the help of Divine Providence. The new, progressive historians, aware of Marx and Darwin and stirred by the belief that history must be both dynamic and toughly realistic, read American history in radically different ways...
Avatar, a hippie-oriented newspaper based on a belief in Mel Lyman and in astrology, was founded in June 1967. "We were appealing to the people who could listen at the time," Liz said, 'the drug people. Now we appeal to everybody; businessmen, church people...
...setting is a 1966 U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing to determine whether Detroit's car manufacturers are sufficiently safety-conscious, and Ralph Nader a young lawyer of Lebanese descent, is there to repeat his belief that they are not. To the subcommittee members, Nader presents a fascinating figure-a David to Detroit's Goliath. "Why are you doing all this, Mr. Nader?" one of the Senators asks. "I became in a sense incensed," Nader replies in the convoluted courtroom language that is his customary way of speech, "at the way there can be a tremendous amount of injustice...
Despite all this, concludes Lifton, the "militant rectitude" of the revolution continues to be threatened. The dan gers, he says, lie in the protean nature of man, whose "psychological style is characterized by easy shifts in belief and identification...