Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discussions highlighted a basic philosophical difference between the two parties. Democrats put much of their faith in increasing federal aid to education, which currently runs around $20 billion a year. The extra money, and some of the present aid, would be used to prompt changes in the system. Samples: Senator Joseph Biden would lengthen the academic year by 30 days; Congressman Richard Gephardt would reward school districts that show the most improvement; Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis would intensify federal efforts to help recruit and train teachers. When Gephardt asserted that educational reform "is going to take money -- I think...
...long been an article of faith among psychologists and educators that black achievement in business, sports, politics and the arts would result in growing self-esteem among black children. That belief was challenged last week by two studies, reported at a meeting in New York City of the American Psychological Association, indicating that the poor self-image of black youngsters seems to have changed little over the past four decades. Concluded Kenneth B. Clark, professor emeritus of psychology at City University of New York, whose classic study of black children in 1947 first disclosed the depth of the problem: "There...
...tantalizing excerpts appeared in the West German weekly Der Spiegel. The journals, dating from 1924 to early July of 1941, record Goebbels' development from a deeply religious and literary-minded Catholic youth, who saw his diaries as a "substitute for the confessional," to a zealous political organizer whose sole faith was in Adolf Hitler. Six further volumes, to be published in the next three years, will compile Goebbels' later writings. They cover the remaining war years right up to May 1, 1945, the day Goebbels and his wife killed their six children and then themselves rather than surrender...
...lasting wisdom about ways to cure Congress's chronic inability to pursue O'Neill's ideals without lapsing into fiscal irresponsibility. Yet by | capturing the inside feel of the political rough-and-tumble, O'Neill has succeeded in conveying the excitement of a career based on an abiding faith in what Government can accomplish...
They fear that creatures unknown to science are gestating in the sink of their slum flat. They know their agents can give them just as short shrift by long distance. Perhaps a country visit will rescue their faith in the universe's orderliness. Well, they have reckoned without the rain, mud and chill. Or the bull in a neighbor's field. Or the queenly ardor of Withnail's Uncle Monty (a sweetly mad Richard Griffiths), who turns up to pursue his hopeless passion for "and I." Somehow, Wordsworth failed to mention these inconveniences...