Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of all, concluded Harris, we must conquer the American belief that borrowing for an automobile, a home, or a trip abroad is moral while loans for education, the most productive loans...
...cited the "Rough Rider's" belief that America's foreign policy "must rest on strength," and that "force should be at the back of righteousness...
...talked of leaving first, of going up to Ontario where they could work in a factory. And a few oldtimers, generally of Scots origin, themselves admitted it mightn't be such a bad idea. But for the most part, the band of lean and wiry miners hung on in belief that things could scarcely get much worse...
...questions were asked merely with intent of confirming previously held opinions and prejudices, not only illustrates bad manners, but is indicative of the fact that a few American students have lost sight of a value on which our democracy and particularly this University is premised. This is a belief in the value of dispassionate, rational inquiry into the nature of things... It is difficult for me to see how understanding will ever be achieved if the spirit which at times manifested itself during the question period last Friday night should prevail. Richard Buel Teaching Fellow in History
...group. He is tolerant, "perhaps too much so, feeling that everyone is entitled to his opinion and even that one opinion is probably as valid as another." He is convinced that what he lives in is not the best of all possible worlds, but he has little belief that by joining political groups he can change matters. Like Candide, he chooses to cultivate his own garden...