Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Field Museum is trying to depict the races of mankind to the best of modern belief (TIME, Oct. 5), why do they depict the typical Nordic male as a bulge-muscled athlete. There is another statue in existence, taken from measurements of typical Americans, which shows the Nordic male in his slump-shouldered, pot-bellied self. The least the Museum could do is to put a rubber abdomen on their statue, to be inflated for anthropologists, deflated for art-lovers. HAROLD WOOSTER...
...railway as the troops embarked for the front; the daughter of a town official has robbed her father and started for Paris; an embittered young soldier, wounded, has broken with his parents. In all of them, as in himself, Cripure finds more than adequate support for his belief that human beings are contemptible...
...impossible to calculate that moral mischief . . . . that mental lying has produced in society. When * man has so far corrupted. . . . the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime...
...priest Calchas (Harry Irvine) is clamoring for a ''holy war" to rescue divine Helen from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, is lured to Aulis in the belief that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days, his son Orestes is a curly moppet...
...belief of Mr. Jacobs that a trainer who expects to get good treatment from his horses should respond in kind. He inspects each of his charges several times a day, makes them practice no more than is absolutely essential, hires the best available exercise boys. He believes that every horse has requirements in exercise, food and personal habits different from those of every other horse. He makes a point of discovering and supplying these. One of the most sensational Jacobs horses this summer has been Amagansett, a 6-year-old jumper which Mr. Jacobs got last spring for the nominal...