Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands' refusal to discuss the question of West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). In East Java, Indonesian army officers confronted a mob that had surrounded the home of a Dutch estate manager. "Are you brave, very brave?" asked one officer. "Yes, yes!" yelled the workers, apparently in the belief that the army would help them sack the Dutch estate. "All right, then," said the officer, "let's all invade West Irian." Shamefacedly, the embarrassed workers shuffled away...
...conventional weapons." The choice, said Lloyd, is between a clearly defined line, "it being known on both sides that to cross that line means war," and a "no-man's land, into which it may be tempting to infiltrate, to try some kind of coup in the belief that undefended territory can be taken without risk of war." Added Lloyd: "In present circumstances and on the present demarcation lines, to disengage might well lead to a greater insecurity and a greater risk...
...July 15), quit last week in disgust after a 13-month run on NBC. Reason: advertising agencies had failed to turn up a national sponsor for the show, which has been sponsored regionally. Cole charged that "many, not all" of the agencies had deliberately dragged their feet in the belief that a Negro "performer would hurt any national client's sales in the South. Said he: "This is nonsense. As an entertainer, I know I'm salable to all kinds of people, not just one race." Cole's decision was triggered when NBC proposed replacing him with...
Bishop Russell S. Hubbard of the Spokane district publicly deplored the argument, but agreed that Kinsolving's preaching had been "within the allowable latitude of the church." Says Kinsolving: "I held this belief throughout my theological training [Church Divinity School of the Pacific]. I also believe very firmly in Heaven. I can't prove any of this, nor do I know anyone who can. but I came into the priesthood to preach the truth as I see it. because I believed this is one of the few churches in which it could be done...
...modern U.S. church architects (TIME, Sept. 19, 1955). were influenced partly by the materials available, but even more by the desire to break with a tradition-heavy past. These churches, photographed on a tour of Europe in 1957 by U.S. Architect G. E. Kidder Smith, are designed in the belief that Christians at worship want to breathe the air of the present. Not all of the churches please all worshipers. But, says Kidder Smith of the surge of church building in western Europe: "There is hardly any warmed-over pastiche or fainthearted aping of ancient forms. There is the very...