Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought to an abrupt halt when Washington and Moscow co-sponsored a U.N. resolution to force the belligerents to accept a cease-fire. For years Arab gulf leaders have cited that demonstration of what can be accomplished when the superpowers work together. It supports their devout belief, they say privately, that the Iran-Iraq war could be stopped if Moscow and Washington decide to stop...
...young bright lights of the moment. F. Scott Fitzgerald paid the price of fame, but, says the critic and memoirist Alfred Kazin, "he wanted to be the best. I don't hear anyone talking of being the best today. Books are now made as movies are. There is no belief that a book has a long life. Writers have abandoned the idea of making a masterpiece. Now they are Hollywood venture capitalists and accomplices in all that is happening...
...questionnaire on the issue for a NOW-sponsored "speak-up." As she read the women's responses about their sexuality, "a whole picture of the universe began to fall into place," says Hite. "Without feminism I don't know what I would be doing today. It gave me the belief in myself...
...first of six lectures on "Poetry and Belief," leading literary deconstructionist Harold Bloom said the prophets of the Hebrew Bible were influenced by one another...
...people weren't coming, or if faculty members had to have a particular philosophical moral belief before they came, maybe it would affect students. But I don't see much danger there myself," Friedenthal said...