Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dynamic, will our academic life correspondingly become half as significant a force in our undergraduate lives? The truth may be that Harvard's student life will be vibrant even without termbill subsidies; the strength of each entering class guarantees it. In other words, we ought not to have blind faith in the virtue of activities fees...
...there were several times when I found myself confronted with mixed emotions. You just pray to God, 'Lord, help me. I need some help with this anger.'" He takes solace in one other resource unavailable to those whose forgiveness is removed entirely from faith. The night his wife died, Mitchell Wright talked to his son Zane. "He asked me when Momma was coming back, and I told him she couldn't." But, he recalls, "I promised him we would both see her again...
...market soared? Low inflation, cost-conscious management and endless global opportunities for U.S. companies have played a huge role. Those things will persist. But our limitless affection for technology, blind faith in index funds and grossly underappreciated sense of stock-market risk are part of the equation too. And those things will pass. It was only 10 years ago that we stretched reason to justify Japanese stocks' trading at 70 or 100 times earnings--just ahead of that country's enduring recession. Today's most popular stocks trade in that range, and tortured explanations again pass for wisdom...
Freud's ventures into culture--history, anthropology, literature, art, sociology, the study of religion--have proved little less controversial, though they retain their fascination and plausibility and continue to enjoy a widespread reputation. As a loyal follower of 19th century positivists, Freud drew a sharp distinction between religious faith (which is not checkable or correctable) and scientific inquiry (which is both). For himself, this meant the denial of truth-value to any religion whatever, including Judaism. As for politics, he left little doubt and said so plainly in his late--and still best known--essay, Civilization and Its Discontents...
...there showed a flair for mathematics, even if his papers were criticized for being "dirty," i.e., messy. Turing recognized his homosexuality while at Sherbourne and fell in love, albeit undeclared, with another boy at the school, who suddenly died of bovine tuberculosis. This loss shattered Turing's religious faith and led him into atheism and the conviction that all phenomena must have materialistic explanations. There was no soul in the machine nor any mind behind a brain. But how, then, did thought and consciousness arise...