Word: believerism
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He was known as the Ace With Nine Lives, and he knew flying in all its phases -from production and planning to fighting and stunting. In a profession steeped in superstition his luck was legendary, and he was his own most faithful believer. When only 16 he launched a glider...
Even a confirmed believer in the cocktail party theory of weekends might find the experience worthwhile, and even exciting. He would learn that the art of building a work-bench is as difficult to master as the conjugation of the aorist, although much more fun, and that a discussion of...
In spite of Taft's opposition Brandeis was seated-on the same bench with his closest friend since 1879, cavalry-mustached Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The reactionaries of the day had missed the point about Louis Brandeis. whom they had sneeringly dubbed "Saint Louis of Boston." He was no...
Religious Nationalist. Father Joseph was baptized François (Leclerc du Tremblay). At the age of eight, he begged to be sent away to boarding school "on the ground that he was being spoilt by his mother, qui en voulut faire un délicat." At ten he spoke Greek...
A firm believer in democracy, Ferrero has been living since 1930 in voluntary exile in Geneva, where he teaches history. Since the Italian Government has banned, confiscated or destroyed all his works in Italy, he now writes in French, is working on a sequel to The Reconstruction of Europe, tentatively...