Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disciples were organized at the beginning of the 19th century as a backwoods ecumenical venture that sought to do away with denominational differences. The founder was the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania who wanted to unite all men on a few basics of belief. Christianity, he argued, is "essentially and constitutionally one church made up of all those in every place who profess their faith in Jesus Christ...
Welcome as such statements were, Wall Street showed much more excitement over what brokers were calling "the Nixon market." Reflecting belief that a Republican Administration would be good for corporate profits, stock prices rose last week to their highest level in two years amid heavy trading volume. Continuing a two-month rally, the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed...
...correcting racial injustice and eliminating poverty, the large majority of our students do not feel that the way to correct these ills is to disrupt the University. I went on to say that the student body is made up of perceptive and reasonable people, that it is my belief that only a very small group of students is continuously and rigidly intent on obstruction as a technique. As to S.D.S., contrary to what has been said about my remarks, I took pains to praise the S.D.S. for their concern and to applaud the general interest and activity of undergraduates...
Everyone is for law and order, or at least for his own version of it. Few Americans can define precisely what they mean by the term, but the belief that law and order is being destroyed represents a trauma unmatched in intensity since the alarums generated by Joe McCarthy in the Korean era. The issue has virtually anesthetized the controversy over Viet Nam. It has distorted debate over pressing urban problems. It has perverted the presidential election, the closest thing in this secular republic to a sacred collective...
Still, TV has shown some of America's greatest cities under siege. It has shown Negroes carrying out loot from burned-out stores, sometimes while policemen and troops looked the other way. This sight, perhaps more than any other, contributes to the belief that Negroes are basically indolent and immoral, that law enforcement in the U.S. has broken down, that the black man is getting preferential treatment. That conclusion is directly contrary to the hallowed Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate...