Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collins message to both sides was the same: in order to find wise solutions, the whites must "face up to the fact that the Negro does not now have equal opportunities, that he is morally and legally entitled to progress more rapidly, and that a full good faith effort" must be made to help him lift his standards. Similarly, Negroes must contribute by changes in their own attitudes, e.g., by realizing that they "must merit and deserve whatever place [they] achieve in a community . . . There must be change, and change usually comes hard . . . Ours is the generation in which great...
...relegated religion to second or even no place at all. In Israel, Orthodox believers and a secularist government still live in uneasy truce. But among U.S. Jews, this division has been largely ignored. The majority of U.S. Jews accepted Zionism so enthusiastically, mixing its political aims with their faith's ritualized nostalgia for the lost homeland, that most Orthodox rabbis and lay religious leaders have made a place for themselves in Zionism. They usually did so in one of two organizations: the 100,000-member Mizrachi Organization of America (founded in 1911) and the 50,000-member Hapoel Hamizrachi...
...military," says Author Descola, and makes clear that at the time no Spaniard saw a contradiction in this. Cortés formed his expeditionary fleet in Santiago de Cuba, and his flag bore the device: "Brothers and comrades, let us follow the Cross, and if we have true faith in this symbol, we will conquer." The facts will always remain astonishing-how Cortés scuttled his ten ships (not "burned behind him," but dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses and ten cannons, advanced against the unknown things...
...Indians who were fighting Cortés have been glorified by many historians; nevertheless, these books make clear that the battle was between the armed faith of Christian Europe and a cruel empire whose ceremonies seemed to the Spanish soldiers a bloody, blasphemous parody of the Mass. Inland, the conquistadors first met the strange Mexican-Indian priesthood, men whose hair was caked with human blood and whose temple floors were clogged with it. The Christians had no hesitation in breaking their idols. Even then they had no notion that in the city of Tenochtitlán as many...
...judge another. Americans need not fear criticism, or insulate their consciences from an accounting of the wrongs the U.S. can and does commit. But this book does not really offer such an accounting. Instead, it offers Author Habe's strange verdict that the U.S., acting in good faith, has done more harm to Europe than the nation which, twice within a quarter-century, launched total...