Word: belief
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Perhaps the silence stemmed from the belief that some percentage of all those mass telegrams could be dismissed as from the people on the fringes of American society. Probably not. Instead the muted criticism of the racist messages reflected the desire of many congressmen to believe in the "Ollie" myth. Those who continue to refer to the telegrams want to go on worshipping the populist myth without facing up to the myth's darker, racist side...
...reflected the other reaction to North. If bigots are inspired by the sight of a marine in uniform standing up to an ethnically diverse Congress, Blacks like Stokes are left uneasy by that same figure asserting that popular will must be carried out. He said that North's intense belief in loyalty to individuals rather than loyalty to the law was particularly offensive to Black Americans. Stokes said that North seemed not to take the Constitution seriously, but rather was interested in more general and abstract ideas. If a law was by passed, Stokes said of North...
North literally became a folk hero from his testimony, representing the good, bad and ugly strains of the frontier mentality. His lawlessness, his belief in following superiors, his anti-communist zealotry combined his constant incantation of patriotism was bound to bring the bigots to his side. What is distressing is that North never repudiated that segment of his support. Brendan Sullivan was equally quiet. One can only be glad that the civil rights movement happened, enabling Louis Stokes, son of a Black cleaning lady, to sit as a United States Representative at one of the country's most important public...
With its decision to strike down Louisiana's law requiring the teaching of creationism in public schools ((LAW, June 29)), the Supreme Court is forcing more and more students to be indoctrinated with the belief that the theory of evolution is fact, without the balance of other evidence. Evolution does not yet explain some vitally important questions about living forms, such as the vast chasm between man and other animal life. Religious doctrine should not be included in the public-school curriculum, but neither should a theory be taught as the final statement on origins while that hypothesis is still...
Boldness. Bravery. The desire to please superiors. The ability to inspire loyalty. Confidence unconstrained by doubt. True belief unhampered by questions. And a willingness to risk the entire game on a single, even reckless play...