Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brinton's last lecture was a defense of intellectual history, the field which he has spent his life establishing as a respected discipline. He declared his ultimate belief in the rightness of human reason, and praised the complexity and diversity of modern democratic society...
...Cuba. The insidious conspiracy of the Bay of Pigs, and the involvement of the U.S. government in that venture, plus President Kennedy's ill-considered promise to the exiles that "the flag of freedom will someday fly in the streets of Havana again," did nothing to dispel the belief of Cubans in the U.S. that this government was prepared to aid them overthrow the island's revolution...
Carmichael automatically became a U.S. citizen when his parents were naturalized in the early 1950s. Though several Congressmen would like to see him arrested for sedition-or on any other applicable charge-Attorney General Ramsey Clark has opposed any legal action in the belief that the Government's case might make Carmichael a martyr and would probably not hold up in court. Thus, when-and if-Carmichael finally does return to Hell, U.S.A., the most that he is likely to suffer is confiscation of his passport. Reason: as a U.S. citizen he broke the State Department's rule...
...growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America-discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest. I am hopeful that this challenge may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political helplessness and restore to many people a belief in the processes of American politics and of American government...
...problem of the U.S. dollar, indeed, would not exist today if it were not for the problem of gold, and the problem of gold can be controlled by the United States Government. The belief of country folk and Frenchmen in gold is not likely to change overnight, but the serious world is learning that the dollar is more important than gold, and that in the present relation between the two it is gold which is the dependent variable. To put it another way, the question before the world money market today is whether the total economic strength of the United...