Word: believerism
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President Eisenhower's taste in literature is supposed to run to westerns, but the book he kept pressing on friends and Cabinet members is a work of philosophy called The True Believer. A shrewd study of fanaticism, the book was written by Eric Hoffer, a San Francisco longshoreman and...
To India's able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes...
Nizer stated that "if democracy is to work, civil liberties should be extended only to those who believe in democracy. He protested the "excessive and arbitrary application of civil liberties, rights in which I am in general a firm believer and for which I have a record of having fought...
Pictures in the Louvre. That they did is the responsibility of one man-Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle, 72. His ability to bring a skillful influence to bear upon events should be enough to send a believer in impersonal historical determinism back to his books. Tall and ungainly, so...
Partly because in the past he was denied financial backing by cautious Canadians, Taylor is impatient with both Canadian businessmen ("They've got to get off their duffs") and the new wave of Cana dian nationalism ("Have you ever heard of anything more outdated?"). A believer that older men...