Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stunned beyond belief, shaken beyond admission, still unable to comprehend the disaster, the Arab world last week lurched violently between collapse and retribution. It could no longer make war, but refused to make peace. It had lost its armies, but was desperately determined not to lose its face. Instead, it indulged in an orgy of breast-beating, rationalizing, complaining and threatening that seemed intended to prove both that the Arabs had won the war and that someone else was to blame because they had lost it. "Defeat exists only for those who admit it," said Cairo's semiofficial newspaper...
...with admiration at war colleges the world over. Beyond those tangibles there looms the dedication of the Jews, forged in thousands of years of dispersions and persecutions, their inviolable determination to ensure modern Israel's survival as a nation. "Everybody fought for something that is a combination of love, belief and country," said Moshe Dayan at week's end. "If I may say so, we felt we were fighting to prevent the fall of the Third Temple...
...smilingly asked a press conference. Some Protestants and other Episcopalians were not so enthusiastic. Michigan's Episcopal Bishop Richard Emrich, a convinced ecumenist himself, warned that "one of the great facts of the world is not that you desire unity but that there are real differences of belief." One such difference was pointed out by the Rev. Carl Howie of San Francisco's Calvary Presbyterian Church: "In a large segment of the Christian Church, we consider Jesus Christ the chief pastor...
...American theatre, attendance is becoming equated with participation and/or concern. Most "anti-war" plays, for example, serve only to flatter an audience into the belief that they too are opposed to suffering and bloodshed. The applause which greets a Viet Rock is self congratulatory. Curiously, plays which exist only to show that the author is angry and that the people he's angry at had better feel pretty damn guilty and scared (I am thinking of LeRoi Jones), produce a similar response...
...another speech before two groups, Gerald Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American and a member of the Board of Overseers, bemoaned the increasing separation of arts from sciences and the increasing belief that they cannot understand each other well...