Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshmen are not four-year-olds. Contrary to popular belief, cow suits and funny hats don't interest them. All the workers get for their costumes are insults from students. Why make them...
...start with the [Critical Legal Studies students. The trouble with many students is that they do not have the faintest idea of how one goes about proving something. They have no experience with sound techniques for acquiring reliable knowledge or determining whether a belief that is essential to a value choice is well grounded or not. In my courses, this is evidenced over and over again, and I am always moved to exasperation when it occurs...
Anti-semitism has also been a problem in the Church for more than a millenia. It has its roots in the belief of some Christians that the Jewish religion, while still valuable in its doctrines, has been replaced by the word of Christ, who claimed to be the messiah of the Jews but was rejected by their leaders...
...opposed to all killing, especially when talk of frying people can help pull him out of the political fire. During the campaign, he scored big points with his tough stance on capital punishment. He supported it on the stump, in the debates, and through anticrime TV ads trumpeting his belief in the death penalty. The ads harped on Michael Dukakis' opposition to capital punishment, a position Dukakis was not shy about proclaiming anyway. The death penalty is a useful issue for any politician who believes that voltage wins votes. It works in a campaign, but on a different level, many...
Indeed, perhaps pessimistically, humanitarian conservatism accepts the good, together with the bad, until time and circumstances allow for the attainment of the better. While common neo-conservatives mouth similar views, the humanitarian conservatives accept that people must move actively to bring those times and circumstances about. It is this belief that brings true conservatives closer to liberal reformers than to their heirs in the now-warped conservative tradition...