Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what do the lines mean? What is the relation between the palm and the future? Many people think that palmistry is a matter of predestination: that the palm indicates exactly what will happen in a lifetime. It is my belief, however, that the palm, if read accurately, gives a very clear indication of what is likely to happen in the course of a given life. There is an old saying about being forewarned and being forearmed, and it is extremely apropos in the matter of palmistry. Assuming that I am right in saying that the palm indicates what is likely...
With the snows of winter comes a traumatic experience for 1,400,000 of the nation's preparatory and high school students: they must suffer through the three-hour Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Much of the agony stems from the exaggerated belief of many students that their S.A.T. scores will determine whether they get into the college of their choice-or even any college at all. For the most part, the pain is pointless. A number of educators now contends that the tests are an imprecise indicator of future success-and colleges are relying on them less and less...
...Religious Experience, Pragmatism and A Pluralistic Universe seems almost miraculous-even with such an excellent guide as Professor Allen to offer explanation. As for James's influence today, Biographer Allen notes that after a generation of neglect, psychologists are making sympathetic re-evaluations of James's belief in the need for values and disciplined thinking...
...been possible to prove the benefits to babies beyond the shadow of a doubt. But studies seem to bear out his belief. South African babies born after prenatal decompression have scored, on the average, about 18% higher than normally born South African white children in tests based on the landmarks of infant development mapped out by Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell. In one group of decompression babies, 16% scored at least 48% higher. At their first birthdays, six specially watched infants who had had the benefit of decompression during gestation and birth appeared to be as developed physically and behaviorally...
...still mourn those burned scraps. But four of his workbooks of self-history are available for study-at 26, Dylan sold them to the Lockwood Library of the State University of New York for $101. Others may yet turn up, but these are enough to discount fully the romantic belief of his pre-hippie worshipers, who liked to think that their boozy, wenching golden boy had reached out carelessly and seized his lovely lines as they drifted into his alcoholic haze...