Word: either
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampshire's early-bird presidential primary. Was he upset by the plan? "Well." said Nelson Rockefeller, "I was upset about a lot of things in the beginning-but I've got used to them now." Reminded that once he is entered in New Hampshire, he must either run or positively forbid the use of his name, Rockefeller replied with a broad grin: "I'll have to make a mental note of that...
...clear fact that was emerging from the Geneva talks is that if the West has little to hope for at the summit, it has little to fear either. The Western position has proved sturdy despite the allies' much-publicized suspicions of one another. Perhaps significant concessions by one side or the other might come out of a summit meeting. But, as Geneva has shown, they are not likely to be the result of impulse or mistaken trust by either side...
...will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings! And a substantial majority, though naturally denying...
Perhaps the key to a full understanding of these Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates who will not affirm the existence of God, considered as a group, lies in the fact that about 85 per cent of them will not deny His existence, either--that is, they are predominantly agnostics who look equally askance at the theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept...
...typical Harvard non-believer evidently thinks the enormous temple of his values can stand without trembling though the old granite foundation has utterly crumbled. He is deluding himself. Either the edifice must be abandoned for a new structure that we cannot as yet even dream of, or else the old building must be bolstered by new materials almost inconceivable...