Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tale of this sort, there is an irreducible minimum of suspense and action, which really cannot be satirized, lest all tension be drained from the plot. There is also a certain essential nobility of character that cannot be bleached out of the double's personality, lest all belief in these improbable doings be lost. The result is that Peter Sellers, in the key double role, must play his part as the substitute king very straight. In this version he is not a gentleman, but a London hansom cab driver. Sellers makes something quite affecting of this honest workman, intruding...
...Belief in the case method won't be altered," Timothy W. Armour, assistant dean of the MBA program, says, adding he doesn't think Bok expected the school to change the case method much...
...made a crucial distinction between using proxy votes to influence corporations and using consumer boycotts. Owning, Bok says, implies responsibility, whereas buying does not. Bok does not try to set specific policies on boycotts in the letter, however, and his only reference to the ad hoc committee is his belief that its report contains problems. What problems, and how Bok will address them, remains unclear...
...conviction that one of the great strengths of higher education lies in its diversity." Bok has visions of the United States' uniquely independent system of education slowly being eroded under the influence of such a department. One of the major tenets of Bok's philosophy of education in his belief in an almost sacred split between the state and its schools. In Bok's words, a growing body of federal regulations are "beginning to creep very close to those key academic functions which really matter--the size of the student body, the composition of the faculty, etc." Bok says...
...people alter their behavior by small degrees, but do not change anything drastically. Second, they persist in one of the oldest articles of the American faith - a belief in the technological fix, in new developments that will bail them out of their dilemmas. Gasohol, for example, has just the look of that American deliverance. Thus, in a sense, American tradition itself militates against concerted action against the energy shortage...