Word: believingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many within the Administration disagree with Nixon's extreme tactics, believing that Washington should have accepted the October agreement and forced Saigon to go along. Besides its human cost, the policy of massive bombing carries other high risks. Détente with Moscow and Peking could be chilled; Congress...
In Needleman's view, the optimism of modern science created instead a kind of psychological geocentrism, which misled man into believing that he could understand all reality at an ordinary level of consciousness. Earth was no longer to be at the center of the universe, but man's...
If Gardner's book consisted mainly of the Sunlight Dialogues he would simply get his A for ingenuity as well as a few "Ahs" for cleverness and learning. A few people would marvel (as they will anyway, and justly) at the great skill he shows in blending resonances from...
Man has long invested the simple and necessary act of taking in nourishment with heavy ritual. Therefore, it is fitting that one of the kinkiest divisions in the army of culinary skeptics, the health-food addicts, should operate with almost religious conviction. Believing that good health, not to mention beauty...
Some eat such foods for religious reasons, believing that certain items nourish the soul as well as the body. "Eating is a spiritual movement," says one of Erewhon's customers. "It upsets me to see people eating junk. It's just an escape, like drugs or alcohol." Followers...