Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...belief is that the situation is becoming gray...
Harvard seems to stand alone in its belief in forcing students to make a choice about which many are not informed. Concentration fairs give a blurred picture at best, while the real taste of a concentration comes from taking courses in the particular department. Of the eight courses taken first year, three are usually consumed by Expos and language requirement. In addition, core courses tend to be the secondary priority of new students, though the core fails to give a real picture of any particular department...
Indeed while the time is ripe for the bill'spassage, it still faces powerful Senate opponents,numerous legislative hurdles and a belief held bysome conservative politicians that it representsan endorsement of "the homesexual lifestyle...
Nevertheless, we who share a perhaps hopeless idealism, we who hold a perhaps naive belief in the power of democracy must firmly, resolutely oppose the suppression of human rights. We most follow our perhaps irrational faith that even if the trains do run on time. dictatorship is inherently evil and can never be tolerated. And especially such a murderous dictatorship as this one should be abhorred...
...learned that this tradition continues. It was the height of irony to find that in the same review of a movie denounced for "reinforc[ing] some long-standing racial stereotypes," the author describes one character as a "Japanese mafioso." Does the Editorial Board (which offered no disclaimer) express the belief that criminals worldwide owe their existence to an illicit network originating on Sicily at the turn of this century? Or is your belief that Italians are in general archetypal criminals...