Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where the Shi'ite mullahs have traditionally served as the conscience of the people. The mullahs were scandalized by growing corruption that clearly involved the royal family, by the jet-setting Western ways of Iran's new rich, by the Shah's apparent contempt for the faith to which most of his people belonged. Beyond that, the mullahs were infuriated early last year when the then Premier, Jamshid Amuzegar, canceled the $80 million annual subsidy that they had formerly received from the Palace to spend on mosques, scholarships and travel. In addition, in an effort to curb...
...belief that art could assist social change was a central idea of the Modernist enterprise. It pervaded the revolutionary idealism of the Russian constructivists, the Bauhaus designers, the Dadaists and Surrealists, even the Abstract Expressionists. It has now ended, and instead of the old faith in a heroic future, we have an institution: the Mausoleum of the Briefly...
...protect parties from unreasonable ones. In a recent case, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. stalled the State of Ohio in its attempts to get at some records in Switzerland. A federal judge ordered the company to pay Ohio $60,000 in legal costs. Another judge, citing "flagrant bad faith," simply threw out the antitrust claim of New York City's Metropolitan Hockey Club Inc. (later Golden Blades) after it failed to respond to hundreds of interrogatories from the defendant, the National Hockey League, for 17 months. Upheld by the Supreme Court, the ruling has led to what University...
...gates of our culture with dire pronouncements: "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times ... Defeat in Viet Nam, economic stagnation, and the impending exhaustion of natural resources have produced a mood of pessimism in higher circles, which spreads through the rest of society as people lose faith in their leaders ... As social life becomes more and more warlike and barbaric, personal relations, which ostensibly provide relief from these conditions, take on the character of combat ... a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class ... the Protestant virtues no longer excite enthusiasm ... The happy...
...cannot be dismissed as mere crazies: many were poor, elderly blacks, but a number were well-educated younger people from seemingly comfortable backgrounds. What united them was partly a fear of freedom, partly a defect in will that led them to surrender blindly to any powerful leader, any strong faith - things they somehow were not able to find in U.S. society and so rejected it. They did so even though the leader was a charlatan, and the faith insane...