Word: believingness
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Brown snatched the championship away with seven minutes to go, tying the game on a penalty kick. Even though Harvard wound up losing the title, they haven't stopped believing. But they haven't quite gotten over it, either.
She said Hass spoke in that panel about how most of Keats' later poems were never equalled by later artists, so it is "therefore intimidating to poets who cannot call themselves Keatsian without believing that they will fail to measure up to his standard."
There was a time when suicides were not permitted ceremonious burial--they were indeed dumped in shallow graves at crossroads, their names pronounced taboo. Surely this custom evolved in part out of a desire to dissuade potential suicides from believing they would be celebrated in death. Today, of course, we...
There is a lesson here not just for policymakers but also for the rest of us. "It is human nature always to want a little more," writes the psychologist Timothy Miller in the recent book How to Want What You Have, perhaps the first self-help book based explicitly on...
The Emperor's strategists also prepared for an invasion of Kyushu. Allied intelligence estimates in late April put 84,200 Japanese troops in southern Kyushu. In fact, by late July almost 600,000 Imperial troops were on the island. That balance of Japanese to American fighting men portended a cataclysm...