Word: belief
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...Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. The final segment of the section was written by Senior Writer Ezra Bowen, who acknowledges an intense, longtime interest in ethics. Bowen is a 1949 graduate of Amherst College, where he studied history and philosophy (and starred at first base on the baseball team). His belief in ethical obligations underlay a major part of a commencement address he delivered earlier this month at Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, and he will return to the topic on May 24 at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., when he receives an honorary doctor of letters...
Much of the discussion about the beatification of Edith Stein, who became Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, mistakenly focuses on her death at Auschwitz ((RELIGION, May 4)). The reason for her beatification has to do mostly with the quality of her life, her deep belief, profound intellect and inspired spirituality. Far from dishonoring her Jewish roots, the Roman Catholic Church now honors her faith and the triumph of her spirit through her tragic death at the hands of the Nazis...
...nothing at all. Far from discouraging anyone, this is almost an incitement. Wanna be able to snow you did something for The Movement? Blockade a speaker and Harvard will provide you with free documentary proof, suitable for framing. It's hard to say which is sillier, the belief that this constitutes effective punishment, or the fear of the Ad Board minority that it was too brutal. It would seem from this farcical episode that Harvard's authorities are divided between those who think it is wrong to defend free speech effectively and those who think it is wrong to defend...
...beautiful Ione Carruthers: "He and Ione between them would be connected by blood or marriage to every family that counted in Manhattan society!" The only impediment is Griswold's determination to invite Atalanta, his paternal grandfather's widow, to the festivities. Because of her uncertain past and the general belief that she married an old man for his fortune, this woman simply cannot be received by people who matter. Griswold can have either his integrity or his bride. His potential mother-in-law tries to explain things to him: "Society is not just a question of dressing up and giving...
Secord also echoed statements he made Wednesday about White House involvement, saying, "It was my belief that the President of the United States was well aware of what we were doing...