Word: believerism
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(3 of 12) continued Irving. " 'Your personal privacy is all you've got.' He means privacy of opinion, candor. He's also a firm believer in the necessity of being eccentric. He says eccentricity is just the world's way of describing honesty. Everyone would be deemed eccentric if he...
Work Ethic. Like many G.M. executives, Gerstenberg was a small-town boy who became a self-made man. He was raised in upstate New York and studied business at the University of Michigan ('31), working part time as a dishwasher to pay expenses. His father once told him to...
Has being so close to the subject made Wilhelma believer in extra terrestrial life? "It is simply too arrogant a presumption to say flat out that kind humans are alone in the universe," he says. "Sometimes this kind of mystical belief rings truer than the cleanest scientific logic. That'...
But the importance of the article is elsewhere. It resides not in the bulk of the text but in the last two pages, and in the very revealing, racially oriented introduction by the editors. In the last section. Herrnstein is not a behavioral psychologist but a social theorist: he presumably...
Feel Like Going Home is one man's effort to throw a soft light on the blues tradition. It is a highly personal, non-systematic work by a true believer. Author Peter Guralnick shuns the "definitive history" approach in favor of a semi-autobiographical study of his heroes. He is...