Word: believingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the Israelis want more than security. They want peace. Yet they don't know how their war will end. "We are in a tunnel," said a university student. "It is dark, and we cannot see the end. But we cannot live without believing that there is an end."
I am happy being here despite the pettiness and irrationality. Academicians are ambitious no less than other men. They have no clear objective standard upon which to evaluate their own work or that of their peers. They live in a personalistic world. The only alternative to personalism is bureaucracy and...
All of which points toward the fact that while Russell's movie looks a good deal like Lawrence, it offers little of the Lawrence feel. And when you can no ionger feel the force and logic behind Lawrence's work, the mere plots and characters on which the work is...
Criticized by another for not working to overthrow those in power in America. Mailer said that "mystical ideas are profoundly revolutionary; you can't be a revolutionary without believing that man is extraordinary."
Sovern has good reason for believing in "the system." Born in The Bronx, he was the son of a garment-industry salesman who went broke at the end of the Depression. He finished near the top of his class at the brainy Bronx High School of Science, graduated summa cum...