Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment the NATO Prime Ministers met for a post-Sputnik conference in Paris last December, it became part of Western European belief that their deliberations constituted a famous victory over John Foster Dulles by the forces of reason. At Paris, so the legend went, the farsighted statesmen of Europe finally overrode Dulles' pathologic distrust of Communists, began to push him, kicking and protesting, toward the one thing that might relieve world tensions-a summit conference with the Russians...
...confronted with two main streams of thought other than his own--Roman Catholicism and Humanism. He will not even have to leave his own church to encounter Humanism, because it is no secret that many persons remain in the churches because of family or social connections, yet in belief and action they are Humanists in all but name. Divinity students will now have the advantage of learning about Roman Catholicism from their new Chair; they should be accorded equal facilities for learning about Humanism...
...Radcliffe dormitory, graduate or undergraduate, has a resident doctor. It is our firm belief that a doctor should be on call to make house visits, or, if this is not to be our privilege, we should not be forced to pay $56.50 to be told to pack up our things, grit our teeth, and march off to Stillman. If this is Radcliffe's version of socialized medicine, we would prefer to get our money back and call our own doctors, who would, we hope, come when we needed them. In the last analysis, it is the inhumanity of the present...
...fewer. The Permanent Class Committee must labor mightily to find the four magic individuals who know most of their classmates--especially the affluent ones--and who are either Bostonians or New Yorkers. The small size of the Fund staff prevents the utilization of larger numbers of agents. The dominant belief that agents must be a part of a small happy family in constant contact with the Fund office limits the location of prospective class agents as well as their number...
When informed of this belief, Mr. Zeehandler sold some hippos, some rhinos, and some long necked giraffes and obtained Hermione Esmerelda. He proceeded to contact John Foster Dulles, who declared that Hermione Esmerelda could not come to the United States. Such an import, said he, would violate an embargo on trade with Communist China...