Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discusses propaganda, Huxley begins to advocate it. The champion of laissez-faire in the marketplace of ideas becomes the proponent of guided thinking for the masses-along the proper lines, of course. Individuals, he says, "should be taught enough about propaganda analysis to preserve them from an uncritical belief in sheer nonsense, but not so much as to make them reject outright the not always rational outpourings of the well-meaning guardians of tradition. That which is merely irrational but compatible with love and freedom, and not on principle opposed to the exercise of intelligence, may be provisionally accepted...
...wages are growing more and more rigid. They are on a ratchet, clicking steadily higher, but locked against any slippage downward. Despite the recession, there are so many escalator clauses, unemployment benefits, and automatic increases that wages this year are still going up (see State of Business). The belief that rising productivity will make up for wage increases, thus holding prices stable, has also proved false-at least in the short run. In 1957 wages jumped 4.5%, yet output per man-hour rose only 1.8%-and prices jumped 3%. The Government, with its farm subsidy and other aid programs...
...heartening to see that Fast can once again freely practice his profession. It is saddening that this new freedom of his comes not from any renewed belief among Americans in the right to the pursuit of happiness, but as a by-product of Fast's revulsion after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech...
...adjoining areas. He does not show sufficient awareness of Mormonism in the cities on the periphery of Mormon Country, in the rural areas, in the East, and abroad. O'Dea's analysis portrays brilliantly the intellectual movements and conflicts in contemporary Mormonism, such as the tension between Mormon belief in a strong education and the fear of contamination by secular thought. His discussion, however, suffers from too great a reliance on the views of a relatively few Mormon intellectuals...
...proposals suggest ways to convey more information about the College to the alumni, such as considering alumni officials of both organizations for positions on the Overseers' Visiting Committees whenever possible. However, the report affirmed the committee's belief that the Alumni Association and the A.H.C. should retain their completely separate identities...