Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department who helped negotiate the Cox-Lee agreement, characterized it as a "statement of faith on the part of both sides." He said that Harvard's promise that there would be no contracts executed on Gutman Library was the key indication of the University's willingness to bargain in good faith. Previously Harvard had only promised to review the contract...
...brought back vividly my mother's gentle complaint: "I am a Southerner, a Catholic and a woman, all of whom are now treated like second-class citizens!" She never became more vocal than that-however, influencing all who knew her far more with her peerless manners, her personal faith and her subtle wisdom in her relationships with others. Perhaps this is Aunt Tabby-ism, but if self-esteem is the expressed goal of the feminists, they could find it in my mother's approach, as European women have known for generations...
...faith in a loving Creator, it is the fundamental challenge to divine credibility: centuries of Christian theological cerebration have led to no more satisfying conclusion than that evil truly exists and that in some unknown way it will be conquered and made to serve the hidden purposes of God. For believer and unbeliever alike, Dostoevsky's riddle-"What am I doing on this earth where sorrow reigns?"-can only be solved provisionally or not at all. The collective historical experience of America is such that it has not really contemplated the question, much less tried to answer it; since...
...chosen remnant, to the point where it very nearly subscribes to the anthropocentric heresy of Pelagius, the 5th century Christian ascetic who argued that man could gain salvation without divine grace by his efforts alone. Put in secular terms, the Pelagianism of America means an unshakable faith in the righteousness of the U.S. "We tend to think," argues Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, "that it is not and cannot be evil at the center. We habitually believe that American intentions are good ones, that America has never started a war, that America is always on the side of democracy...
...will torpedo the talks. In Helsinki, Soviet newsmen continually ask Americans, 'Who has Nixon's ear?'" Some Americans suspect that the Soviets are deliberately playing up their distrust of the Nixon Administration. Their object, according to this reasoning, is to force Washington to prove good faith by granting concessions greater than last week's renunciation of bacteriological warfare (see THE NATION...