Word: believingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His free-form, unconstrained lecture style which had been considered masterful was suddenly dubbed "showboating." In the spring of 1967, The New York Times quoted his students as believing, "Erich Segal does for Latin what Christ did for Lazarus." But by 1971, Segal himself seemed to look a bit leprous...
Grayson has described the complex test on profit margins, which was not widely publicized or understood at the beginning of Phase II, as "a second line of defense." He meant that it was designed to bring down some prices that had already been raised-something that most American consumers have...
Perhaps last week's most impassioned overreaction came from the New York Times's Anthony Lewis: "In my generation we grew up believing in America. The truth is now impossible to escape if we open our eyes: the U.S. is the most dangerous and destructive power in the...
Beyond ideology he speaks for a lifestyle. In believing the myth of Middle America, Agnew has become a myth himself, and what he really needs is not a journalist but a novelist-a 1972 Dreiser-to do him justice. · Melvin Maddocks
Sir / I am sorry you did not save the "Con Man of the Year" award for George Wallace. He has conned many Americans into believing that freedom, equality and justice can be compromised by bigotry, racism and inhumanity to one's fellow man.