Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some University officials have expressed a belief that the strike will not delay completion of the House past the proposed date of September...
...lines of Chaucer and His Poetry sound strangely like a confession; "...Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, idealist, burgher of London, Commissioner of Dykes and Ditches, who loved his fellow man both good and bad, and found no answer to the puzzle of life but in truth and courage and beauty and belief in God." Kittredge longed to have a chance to live in an age when this sort of life was possible, a desire hinted at in Witchcraft in Old and New England, "We are all specialists now-a-days, I suppose. The good old times of the polymath and the doctor...
...announcement of the new group, Linda S. Mirin '59, stated that the Committee "has been organized in the belief that promoting the objective study of world disarmament is one of the most meaningful contributions we, as students, can make to the cause of world peace...
...Book-of-the-Month Club Judge John Mason Brown, "John's foible isn't name-dropping, it's name-wonder. He's never got over the mica that's in names. He has a child's sense of giving a party, a fairyland belief in celebrities." One fairyland fable who slips frequently in and out of the house on East 62nd Street is Greta Garbo, the "G.G." to whom John Gunther dedicated Inside Russia Today, along with "G. and V." (Socialite George Schlee and his wife, onetime Fashion Designer Valentina, who introduced Garbo...
...presenting Paul Auriol to the Duke of Windsor, who murmured: "Don't I know something about your father?" The glacial reply: "Possibly. He's President of France." (The duke was repaid at the same party when the Adman-Philanthropist Albert Lasker lengthily congratulated him in the innocent belief that he was the real-life hero of the newly opened Broadway musical, The King...