Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom of speech," but outside no party member (and presumably no private person) would have the right to express opinions which are out of harmony with party policy. This was a direct slap at his left supporters, whose "ideological confusion and revisionist tendencies," he said, "undermine unity and sow disbelief." Then Gomulka turned on the Stalinists: "Not only revisionism disarms the party-the same, though in a different way, results from dogmatism and conservatism...
...Cantabrigians under the spell of Continentalism would join the desperate people in Sartre's stories and the creatures of Camus in their state of elevated wretchedness--a vilifying yet inexpensive estrangement that sets them off from their humdrum fellows. They have in their minds' eye the limbo of clandestine disbelief they think is occupied by post-war, or just post-nineteenth century, European intellectual degenerates. Needless to say, they fall short, and usually end up feeling what they imagine French poets feel or at least what philosophy students at the Sorbonne feel when they look at American tourists with...
...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...
...done with a crowd looking on. President Eisenhower had pledged to work within the framework of the United Nations. Yet the U.N., while sitting in judgment on the Middle East, was itself also being judged. The whole Middle East crisis began over British, French and Israeli disbelief in the U.N. as an effective instrument of peace and justice. When Britain and France later had to promise the U.N. to withdraw their invading armies from Egypt, that necessity only increased the anger of what used to be the U.N.'s most respectable 'supporters in those countries. They agreed...
Greene's own way is always along a rocky, twisting, darkly landscaped road; it is no spiritual Easiest Way. If Greene, in treating the Callifer family, sharply satirizes the bigotry of disbelief, he never -however insistent his personal answer-brings bigotry to faith. The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike...