Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brombergers lay the blame for the failure of the Suez campaign to Eden's failure to start the invasion ships from Malta until after hostilities had actually begun, to his belief that victory could be won by "aero-psychological" means, and to "the conjunction of America and Russia at the U.N., [which] smothered the debarkation in embryo...
...colleges confirm or corrode religious belief? Last week, after a year of polling and tabulating undergraduate opinion, a Student Council committee gave its answer for Harvard: belief or disbelief is formed before college, and college strengthens and intellectualizes these attitudes, but makes few conversions to either side. Highlights of the report: 60% of Harvard students (190 were polled, only 150 bothered to reply) "require some form of religious orientation or belief in order to achieve a fully mature philosophy of life." Only 40% attend church frequently, but 79% consider questions about the existence and nature of God of "considerable...
...fundamental law is premised on universal belief in God and general acceptance of His commandments and teachings...
After reading The Sun Also Rises and auditing three lectures by Crane Brinton, we have decided that mere belief in the principles of democracy will not suffice. So, we have pledged ourselves and our lives to a Harvard Brigade which will join the forces of Fidel Castro in his battle against the soldiers of the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista...
...good citizen ordinarily is the one who plays a part in his community's political and civic affairs. But there are some who deliberately refrain from such activities in the belief that to do so makes them less effective citizens. They are newspapermen of a large and far-spread school who think that a journalist, by identifying himself with specific groups or activities, compromises his primary role as an independent observer and critic of society. Journalists are far from agreed on the matter, and there are many who argue that editors and reporters who don't pitch into...