Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later comment, Bruner said that "I resent a statement that there is an official faith." In this society of "free spirit of inquiry," he continued, there "must not be an approved dogma...
...have freedom!" But the little girls seemed not to hear, and the ,, cascades of streamers and toilet paper did not stop. Brooded Sociologist Hideo Shi-busawa: "Rockabilly is more like a pathetic distortion of religion than an outlet for sex. Rockabilly singers are the preachers of a strange new faith; the lowteens are the faith's blind worshipers...
...Myself - with Fingers Crossed." What does Gunther believe in? "I believe," says he, "in myself-with fingers crossed." Puffing thoughtfully on his ever-present Marlboro, Gunther adds: "I have no deep, institutionalized religious beliefs. I believe in the fact." On looking inside Gunther-despite his deep faith in his prowess as a journalist-Gunther finds: "I'm terribly limited. I completely lack intensity of soul. I'm not original. I'm really only a competent observer who works terribly hard at doing a job well...
...Wind Bag? Bartley would return to President Eliot's "minimum" faith of "love and service to one's neighbor" and war against "the evils which afflict humanity." These tenets he would buttress with President Emeritus James B. Conant's basic answer to the challenge of the Soviet or fascist view of life-a faith in a "wide diversity of beliefs and the tolerance of this diversity...
There can be only two explanations, unless our neighbors are women of little faith and have no confidence in the economy. The first, that they are unaware of fashion changes, is intolerable. To impugn their sartorial sensitivity would be to question their femininity. The second is that they consider the new style unflattering. But surely the structure of the average 'Cliffe must at least resemble that of her Parisian sister. The shapeless look and an elbow-length sleeve would certainly be a refreshing change in many cases, and in some respects the 'Cliffes would have less to lose than their...