Word: belief
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Hanson was content to make the case for conservatism in his own work. In keeping with his belief that the simple major chord "is to music what such words as God and love are to language," he stayed mostly within the bounds of traditional harmony, building up solid forms that were infused with ruddy Nordic vigor and romantic lyricism. Last week, conducting the New York Philharmonic in the world première of his Sixth Symphony at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Hanson, 71, made his case again...
...effort to encourage the unprecedented wave of corporate mergers now sweeping the country, Harold Wilson's Labor government has acted on the belief that Britain can best compete in world markets with bigger, more efficient companies. Wilson's detractors are not so sure. And they have been particularly suspicious of the Industrial Reorganization Corporation, a quasi-governmental group that has produced more than its share of bickering in its role as Britain's official corporate marriage broker...
...exercise of judicial power, and in a letter to F.D.R. dated Feb. 7, 1937, he wrote that "means had to be found to save the Constitution from the Court, and the Court from itself." And as Annotator Freedman points out, he could salve his conscience "with the justified belief that his legal scholarship would save the President from more flagrant blunders...
UNFORTUNATELY, the Chinese leaders seem to share the belief that the outcome of the Vietnam conflict is of crucial importance to the fate of the world revolutionary movement. This, in turn, convinces the American leaders that they are right. Commentator Donald S. Zagoria once explained that when the Chinese call the U.S. a "paper tiger" they mean "not that the enemy is weak but that in the long run he can be overcome." A Communist victory in Vietnam, the Chinese believe, will illustrate this principle at work, inspiring others to launch their own struggles. When Dean Rusk reads Chinese documents...
PRESIDENT Pusey repeated over and over at the Student-Faculty Advisory Council meeting that the University qua University should not take stands so as to preserve the right of individuals and subgroups within the University to take stands as they see fit. The criterion of "balance" contradicts that belief. It puts the University in the indefensible role of deciding which stands are fit to reach the outside world...