Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something else" of power politics which Governor Bowles offers is the view that man possesses a very human dignity that must be recognized, praised, and encouraged. "Have some faith in people who want to fix things for themselves," Bowles warns us. The underdeveloped nations are not necessarily nations incapable of acting responsibly. India, Pakistan, Burma--the list is much longer--are not children of the new world, but adults seeking to find their destinies unaided by mawkish pampering and baby-talk admonitions...
...latest Administration pronouncement. And by an equally grotesque twist of history, liberalism in America has become an almost irrational attachment to a semi-religious doctrine. In his genial, quietly direct, and assuring way, Bowles has reminded us that our success in building a peaceful world depends on our faith in our principles of justice and humanity, on our truthful regard for the dictates of a procedural, not substantive, liberalism which encompasses a multitude of people whose dream, like ours, is to be at peace with each other...
...redefining of anything quite as absolute as "100 per cent" will require a semantic and mathematical wizardry which only a Princeton Einstein could manage. Still, we have faith in the Inter-Club Council's ability to turn a 95 per cent Bicker into a 100 per cent Bicker--the difficult they can do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer...
Protestant preachers in Italy have their work cut out for them. The Italian constitution of 1948 gives them the green light: "All persons have the right freely to profess their own religious faith in any individual or collective form, to proselytize on its behalf and to perform in private and in public acts of worship, provided that the rites are not contrary to public morals."* But mayors and police chiefs seem to prefer the earlier Fascist police laws of 1929 and 1930, under which non-Catholic places of worship must have permits from local authorities and non-Catholic pastors...
...passion-even a love of man for insect-is the substance of literature. Displaying a talent that recalls Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson, Apiarist Crompton has in the past written engagingly on the ant, the hunting wasp and the spider. But evidently the bee is his true poetic faith-and the bee in his bonnet is as good as a sonnet...