Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, there are powerful pressures not to join. Campus politics is thought a "dirty game," and in some cases the belief is as justified as it is widespread. Spectacles such as the "coup" to overthrow the Council to Study Disarmament, and the vitriolic election battles within the HYRC can only arouse disgust, or perhaps amusement...
...they hope their allies would also roll up and disappear." Western people regard their relationships with other peoples as a "dismal duty," not a "startling opportunity." This negative attitude is "the projection on a national scale of what we think for ourselves," a desire to be left alone, a belief we can do best by ourselves. "It dates from the nursery. But it doesn't work on the human level, and it won't work on the international level...
...well-known complacency regarding its academic superiority affects its powers of self-evaluation: it can recognize and examine its own academic characteristics without admitting that there are other valid ones. This easily leads to the condescension which is typical of Harvard's attitude toward other colleges, and the belief that there are no other legitimate types of intellectual investigation than those used here. Academic pre-eminence is interpreted not necessarily as knowing it all, but at least as possessing the best, perhaps the only methods to find...
...crucial time for him came when the fraternity was torn by a threatened schism over the question of whether belief in the Apostles' Creed should be a requirement of membership. "After a hard-fought battle, we agreed that these traditional articles of faith could not be made obligatory for the individual. Specific doubts on the part of the individual should be allowable-and even necessary. From this controversy I realized that if Christianity is a man's ultimate concern, he can still be a minister, though he may have many doubts. For doubting is part of being...
...attack came, and all night long I moved among the wounded and dying as they were brought in-many of them my close friends. All that horrible, long night I walked along the rows of dying men, and much of my German classical philosophy broke down that night-the belief that man could master cognitively the essence of his being, the belief in the identity of essence and existence...