Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onset it was believed that the fault must lie with the students who were serving as representatives on those committees; that they, in fact, must not be representative of their constituencies. This belief is no longer widely held...
After months of self-imposed restraint, leaders of the Labor Party opposition have resumed open criticism of the government's policies in the belief that their attacks could hardly damage the peace process as much as Begin's tactics have done. "Begin's method of negotiating on the Sinai was a mistake," says Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. "He didn't keep a fallback position. He started from the end, apparently forgetting that negotiations are supposed to result in each side giving something. What else did he expect to give?" Former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin makes virtually the same point...
When asked what was present before the origin of the universe, Weinberg said, "The belief that there was anything before time zero is a common misapprehension of which I am sure physics will rid us someday...
...this date a snow sculpture of Gibbs's head appears by immaculate precipitation behind the Busch-Reisinger Museum and in front of the Gibbsian temple, a monumental temple on the Harvard campus disguised as a laboratory. On normal work days the group uses this "lab" to manifest their belief in X-ray diffraction as the key to solving the world's great problems. But on Gibbs Day, the X-rays are extinguished; the day's only pseudoscientific activities are the barometer and thermometer readings that precede the 15.6 seconds of silence that commemorate the anniversary of the birth...
VERY FEW PEOPLE in this country are strictly middle-of-the-road, mainstream, or centrist. We are a land of independent thinkers, dissenters, regionalists, and everyone has a belief or two out of line with the political mean. When the press was more diverse, it catered to the vigorous variety of outlooks, and people felt that in an intangible way the newspaper or magazine of their choice 'belonged' to them. Now the press is viewed as dominating and monolithic, a part of a power triad with government and industry. Large sections of the population, the majority even--from moral conservatives...