Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addiction of Willie B., the Atlanta gorilla [Jan. 22], should not surprise us. It merely lends credence to the widely held belief that television producers have lowered the intellectual content of their programming to the subhuman level...
There is a growing belief in this country and around the world that the U.S. is losing control of events and faltering in its role as the free world's leader...
...Iran's revolution: During the past few years, there have been dissident factions among several ranks of our society. Internal and external elements have intensified this dissatisfaction for their own gains. To succeed, they used the people's belief in religion. But inside these events, if you carefully study them, you will find leftists. It is obvious that the religious leaders have no capability to rule Iran's economy, politics or the social affairs of the country. So, after the hand of the religious leaders is used to topple the regime, it will...
Jeremiah Gutman of the American Civil Liberties Union called this "impossible constitutionally." In his view the Government simply cannot monitor voluntary private conversations aimed at persuading people to change their beliefs, or attempt to control what religions people adopt. He said that "forced psychotherapy" to attack unwanted belief is "precisely what is going on in the Soviet Union today and precisely what Ted Patrick does on a smaller scale. It is already against...
...long as we saw only anarchy and cultural strangeness, our commitment to the Shah could not be questioned; he was the only game in town. Combine those blinders with a belief that the United States ought to do something to combat the indigenous forces of anarchy and superstition in foreign lands, and the result is a media urging the U.S. action to save the Shah somehow and a government fumbling to find some way of intervention that would accomplish this Herculean labor...