Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems that it is impossible for Protestants to assemble without throwing mud at the Catholic Church. This in itself is proof of the spiritual bankruptcy of Protestantism. When Catholics get together, they have more constructive things to talk about than the myriad shortcomings of Protestants...
...legends arose to pique the imagination with the suggestion that Hitler was alive and biding his time for reconquest; he was hiding out in Argentina, the mountains of Bavaria, the Peruvian Andes. The probate courts of West Germany, seeking to settle Hitler's estate, could establish no satisfying proof that the man was dead...
...American Heritage they picked Pulitzer Prizewinner Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton, 56. Pay to contributors is low (usually $200 for an article). Most contributors write for it as a labor of love. The magazine's success is proof of the Catton credo that "history need not be approached on tiptoe with hat in hand. It can be the most fascinating subject in the world...
...rless' friends-a young baron who is a Storm Trooper in embryo-all this is philosophical proof "that merely being human means nothing." Author Musil is at pains to suggest that such dark impulses sprouting from the confusions of youth are part of growing up. Like a nightmare, the whole perverted episode has not really damaged young Törless-or has it? The boy had briefly "lost his sense of direction [but] an indefinable hidden disgust never quite left him . . ." Readers of this odd but provocative book may wonder whether this sentence does not apply to Old Europe...
...Turkey's Kemal Ataturk declared Istanbul's Church of St. Sophia a historical monument, and cleared the way for Western experts to remove the plaster and paint that pious, iconoclastic Moslems had daubed over the great Christian mosaics. Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof of the power and achievement of Byzantine religious art between the 4th and 15th centuries...