Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deteriorating personality. He has never read a book, and occupies himself with little that is more lofty than his ever-present daily newspaper (in real Russian, too). He must have been a pretty inferior physician at the outset, and in the course of the play he sinks to the belief that absolutely nothing matters anymore. So far gone is Carnovsky's doctor that, after washing and drying his hand in a basin, he proceeds immediately to wash them all over again. At the end Carnovsky shows us the mere shell of a man with not a shred of humanity left...
...James counselled the more maleable boys down at Yale on the subject. As he then figured it was probably safer to choose, despite any doubts, to believe. For who knew what the skeptic risked by leaving life's riddles unanswered? But the times, as they say, have a-changed. Belief is not the sure bet it once was. Too often belief, when not merely irrelevant, has been shown to be destructive or self-defeating. so many philosophies, life styles, governments have been tried--and abandoned--over the past seventy years, that it is little wonder that one hardly feels...
...espionage and red-baiting of the fifties; the calculated idiosyncracies and extravagant violence of the present), Martha's progress becomes more and more analogous to that of a snake as she outgrows and stoically must shed restrictive skins of convictions and illusions. Hers is a progress of discarding belief. And since the direction of Martha's growth is never really voluntary, it is not a "quest" at all-it is simply the inevitable path awaiting anyone who has attained for impressive level of self-consciousness and self-awareness. Similarly, if the reader rarely finds Mrs. Lessing's judgments on recent...
...this is where the inexorable logic of the human heart denies the overwhelming evidence of history) man is soon to become the swan. What kind of swan? Well, the speculation forms the basis for a whole body of literature, a literature whose only real unity is a pervasive belief in man's future transfiguration. Tolkein, Hesse, Arthur C. Clark, all the fountainheads of their respective cults, offer variants on the theme. Man, either as an individual or as a society, is still in his adolescence. He is yet to attain a simpler kind of community, a deeper level of spirituality...
...then, after a brief but vicious firefight that cost at least six Israeli dead, blew up all the artillery and fire-control installations within the fortress. Shortly after they withdrew, Egyptians on the far shore opened a two-hour artillery barrage on the island, evidently acting in the belief that the Israelis meant to hold the fortress for some time to come-and effectively completed the wrecking process...