Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times: "It would be hard to imagine a worse blow to the diplomatic corps." Replied the New York Daily News: The fact that "all of the nation's anti-anti-Communists . . . and phony liberals are in full bellow [against] the nomination ... is reason enough for the Senate to confirm, unanimously...
When news of Norman's death reached Ottawa, Mike Pearson rose in the House of Commons to pronounce an epitaph: "All his actions served only to confirm and strengthen my faith in and my admiration for him. The combined effect of overwork, overstrain, and the feeling of renewed persecution on a sensitive mind and a not very robust body produced a nervous collapse." But Pearson refused to send a new official protest to Washington: "There is no point in making an international issue of this...
Reading the Advocate is, then, to encounter a series of more or less unsuccessful experiments and attempts. The striking thing about the issue is, however, that the most successful work was the least daring. It seems to confirm the cliched contention that a new form will not create a new idea. It is not surprising that most undergraduates do not have very important or startling things to say, but it is discouraging that they will make such elaborate efforts to disguise this fact...
...colleges confirm or corrode religious belief? Last week, after a year of polling and tabulating undergraduate opinion, a Student Council committee gave its answer for Harvard: belief or disbelief is formed before college, and college strengthens and intellectualizes these attitudes, but makes few conversions to either side. Highlights of the report: 60% of Harvard students (190 were polled, only 150 bothered to reply) "require some form of religious orientation or belief in order to achieve a fully mature philosophy of life." Only 40% attend church frequently, but 79% consider questions about the existence and nature of God of "considerable...
...full of antibiotics," said the President a few hours before announcing his support for Leonard Hall as Governor of New York in 1959. Mr. Hall blushed demurely right up to the top of his horn-rimmed glasses, but declined to confirm his political aspirations...