Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his inaugural dinner Monday night, Leighton reaffirmed his belief in the "residential principle," which has proved its worth since the institution of the Houses in the '30's. But he insisted that a non-residential local commuter house is "an essential part of the House system...
Peking's statistics are suspect, but 1958 figures, noted a British economist, "defy belief and baffle logic." But even if Communist figures could be trusted, Red China still has a long way to go before claiming to be a modern industrial state. Mainland China's rate of industrial growth last year was only half that of Japan's. By the end of its current six-year plan, Japan will have acquired new productive capacity greater than that of all the industrial plant Mao's China now has. The Chinese Communists have yet to produce...
...cross of white gardenias on the grave-which was all right with Debbie. "Ty belongs to me now," said Debbie. "Whatever anybody else does is of no concern to me any more." Said Linda, "I am happy for her if she can find peace in that belief...
Collector-Photographer (LIFE) Eliot Elisofon, who organized the show, put his finger on what the primitive artists were after: not beauty so much as life. In fact, says Elisofon, some of the objects "were believed to be alive by their makers. An important belief of the Polynesians was in mana, an impersonal supernatural power. Sculptures contained mana." Such modern sculptors as Lipchitz, Gonzalez, David Smith and Brancusi are not far from this idea, and for mana they, too, sacrifice resemblance. "The primitive artist and the modern one," says Elisofon, "both produce more of what they feel than of what they...
Portions of India have traditionally used a calendar figured in 60-year cycles. But now India is undertaking 5-year plans, and this project is based on the belief that after twelve such plans the country will not have returned circle to her present condition. Thus the cyclical calendar is being replaced, of necessity, by a chronological (which is not synonymous with cyclical, as your article so erroneously implies), dated Anno Domini, as the scientific world civilization overtakes India. Perhaps this fact is symbolic; the lectures will attempt to show that...