Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become his trademark. Says he: "I guess, subconsciously, I have been working up to this for a long time. You can see it in the walls as far back as the Goodyear house. El Panama Hotel is full of grilles and screens. I have come to the belief that the device of the grille is warranted in most parts of the U.S. I think it serves not only to satisfy a wistful yearning on the part of everyone for pattern, warmth and interest, but also serves the desperately utilitarian purpose of keeping the sun off glass and giving privacy...
Married. Francoise Sagan (real name: Franchise Quoirez), 22, bestselling French novelist (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), who has often expressed the belief that young girls should marry men in their 40s; and Guy Schoeller, 42, her publisher, to whom she dedicated her third book (Those Without Shadows); she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris...
Putt admits that not all experts share his belief that a military base on the moon would be useful. Since the moon's gravitation is only one-sixth as strong as the earth's, it should be easier to shoot at the earth from the moon than in the other direction. The moon's lack of atmosphere might make it possible to catapult earth-bound missiles out of deep shafts. Both the moon base and its weapon launchers could be on the far side of the moon, forever invisible from the earth, but all of the turning...
...course of debate on compulsory non-honors tutorial, King K. Holmes '59 questioned the balance the Council was striking between its deliberative and representative functions. "We aren't superior beings," he declared, and expressed his belief that the group should mirror student opinion...
...Seal expressed it, "In a democracy we are supposedly free to become as exclusive or as gregarious as we like, and if in a club situation we choose to be exclusive, this is our privilege." From that bit of casuistry--more often expressed as an innocent belief that "you've got a right to choose your friends and the guys you're going to eat with--the code of values can be relentlessly deduced which summarily condemns certain personality traits, ethnic groups, and even scholarship, intellectualism, and originality themselves...