Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotondi, a scholar who discusses religious questions on television, was talking about a case that had excited all Italy last month. Set upon by five teenagers who tried, unsuccessfully to rape her, pretty Alba Sbrighi, 19, had stabbed and killed one of her assailants with a rusty jackknife. Popular opinion was solidly behind Alba, who is now at liberty pending trial for murder. (The four remaining youths who attacked her are in jail.) But opinion was divided on Jesuit Rotondi's talk interpreting Alba' act in terms of Christian principle...
...Stories Old and New. They were collected by a literary vacuum cleaner named Feng Meng-lung, who dashed off dozens of books himself, but showed more talent in tidying up the writing of others. On one occasion, he read the play of a friend but refused to express an opinion. When the worried playwright returned later that night, Feng put him at ease: "Your play is excellent, but it is one act short. This act I have now added...
...answered the poll, including the convert, seem to be orthodox in their faith. To begin with they practice their religion. They also agree with the Church on issues of Catholic doctrine (for instance, they unanimously affirm that "God is just"), yet they vary among themselves on all matters of opinion...
...religious tradition in the families of the students reveals some parallels to present positions. Those students who have become agnostic in opinion characterize the influence of this tradition as "slight" or "moderate"; the fourteen strong Catholics predominantly characterized their background as including a "marked" religious tradition, although a sizable segment of the orthodox evaluated their tradition as only of "slight" or "moderate" influence...
...came, only the name of Josiah Quincy favored the affirmative. Nearly 50 years later, Quincy looked back on this episode: "No public exertion of mine has been more fully justified by the reflections of a long life," he wrote. His defiance of the President, of Congress, and of public opinion fitted in well with his independent moral code...