Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which "the ignorance of the many is mitigated by professional experience of the politicians." Quinton, 52, an analytic philosopher from Oxford, adopted a still more gloomy view, calling government "a necessary evil" that "allows for tyranny by the collectivity over the individual." Quinton also mocked Adler's belief that all want to share in government by voting. "I vote out of a sense of shame," said Quinton, adding that he looked upon the vote as if it were a life jacket on a ferry boat. "I want the right to use it if something happens...
...second element, faith, includes the belief that "Christ was who He said He was," namely God's own son, and that "He can do what He claimed He could do," forgive sins and fill a person's life. "Only by believing in Jesus-committing yourself to Him, surrendering to Him-are you saved." Graham insists that this God-given "complete change" in individuals is the only basis for social improvement, because people's efforts to better things on their own are doomed...
There, literature and painting-the word and the image, deadly enemies in America-had merged. This fusion had been started a century before by Baudelaire, Mallarme and the symbolists. Their belief in direct equivalences between color, sound, sensation and memory struck Motherwell as one of the supreme achievements of culture: the key to modernist experience. It enabled the homely Protestant to hold his feelings tight in a cultural matrix...
...slumping Carew makes plans to bunt even as he drives to the ballpark. His technique is far more effective than the superstitious rites of old. The Yankees' Jake Powell, operating in the '30s on the then widely held belief that finding a hairpin brought base hits, once followed a woman for three miles after noticing that a large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher...
...human annals such a feat would be beyond belief. In Muriel Beadle's richly informative volume, it is only one of many tails well told...