Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pluralities had led many Massachusetts Republicans to hope that the usually Democratic Irish and Italian voters had elected the Republican candidates mainly because they were Republicans. They felt that the victory did not reflect ethnic voting or a protest against poor candidates offered by the Democratic party. Heightening this belief was the knowledge that the Democratic candidates for governor and senator were energetic, able, good men. If these hopes were true then the Republican party in Massachusetts was at the beginning of a proud...
Instant Theology. Bishop Pike, who unlocked the discussion, is far from being a man talking his way toward atheism, and his reductionist theologizing is seriously intended to help put Christian faith on a surer, sounder footing. What Christianity needs, Pike proposes, is "more belief, fewer beliefs." In the name of this jaunty slogan, Pike seems quite willing to jettison 20 centuries of Christian doctrinal development, if necessary, to preserve and emphasize what he considers the central, essential and irreducible message of the church: God as the loving personal ground of existence, Jesus as the suffering servant in whom...
...Belief & Creed. Certainly there was nothing more calculated to make Pike appear to many churchmen as a sympathetic and possibly heroic figure than the idea of trying him as a heretic. However exasperated they may be by Pike's antidogmatism, Episcopalians generally seem...
...factor in U.S. race relations and politics that has come to be known as backlash is more than merely the reaction of some white people to Negro rioting or cries of "black power." The attitude of many white Americans is influenced by the belief that the Negro has made great gains in a relatively short time, and that he now would do better to stop agitating and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new black militancy is a result of frustration over what many Negroes consider their snail's pace of progress. Beneath...
Variety, too, contributes to the vogue. Whereas men, in 150 years of pants wearing, have managed to add little more than cuffs and a crease, women in the past few years have rung changes beyond belief. Trousers come belled or straight, hip hugging or waist level. Materials range from daytime wool, gabardine or leather to evening silk, velvet, lame and brocade. Jackets are single-or double-breasted, come to the hips, to the top of the thighs, to the knees...