Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some, all this spelled revolution, though except for the bloody battles fought by union organizers, strikers and company goons at some factory gates, it was a remarkably peaceful one. The New Deal, after all, reflected another deeply held belief with roots in the nation's pioneer past: that Americans take care of their own. Though there were those who hated him, F.D.R. by 1936 had inspired enough public hope and confidence to win one of the most overwhelming electoral victories in U.S. history...
...effort" was priority No. 1; and complaints were met with a standard reply: "Don't you know there's a war on?" The country felt extraordinarily close to its far-off troops--sons, nephews, the kids who lived down the street. They were always "our boys." The unity of belief, purpose and effort felt surprisingly good...
...know much about computers--he wrote his breakthrough novel, Neuromancer, on an ancient manual typewriter--but as near as he could tell, everybody who worked much with the machines eventually came to accept, almost as an article of faith, the reality of that imaginary realm. "They develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen," he says. "Some place that you can't see but you know is there...
...foremost of these is the one Luce listed first: "A belief that the world is round." Luce was allergic to isolationism. In his famous 1941 essay, "The American Century," he urged the nation to engage in a global struggle on behalf of its values, most notably "a love of freedom, a feeling for the equality of opportunity, a tradition of self-reliance and independence and also of cooperation...
...millennium as well as today's fin-de-siecle scandals require that reporters be skeptical. But we must avoid the journalistic cynicism--as a pose, as a sophomoric attitude--that reigned in the '70s and '80s. Intelligent skepticism can, and should, be compatible with a basic belief in progress and a faith in humanity's capacity for common sense...