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Word: faithfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual Max Conrad last week: "I navigated by guess and by prayer, mostly. I'd take out my rosary and say my prayers about once an hour. I made it all right. You know, navigation isn't really so difficult. But you've got to have faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...shelves hold many books now on the place of faith in science and psychiatry, and on the vicissitudes of man's efforts to love and to be loved," Dr. Menninger writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "But when it comes to hope, our shelves are bare. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devotes many columns to the topic of love, and many more to faith. But . . . poor little hope*... is not even listed." Often the downgrading of hope was not by accident but by design. Most of the great Greeks held that fate was unchangeable, so hope was an illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope & Psychiatry | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Menninger could have found more on the topic in Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon-four listings (v. 15 for faith, 22 for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope & Psychiatry | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Virtue & Fate. Ben Franklin was not as smug as he sometimes sounds. He was endlessly bent on civic and personal improvement, whether it was founding a library or starting a fire department. The doctrine of human perfectibility to which he subscribed was not yet the easy evolutionary faith of the 19th century but an everlasting challenge to be met with hard work, sound reason and unswerving virtue. In the end, he accepted fate with the engaging humility of his self-written epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Sage | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Novelist Gary died before he could finish his book, but his imperfect work has more of life's stuff in it than all but a few of the year's other novels. His hero is a seedy, reedy British faith healer. Gary's unanswered question: Does the mystical hipster sometimes feel more truly than the Establishment square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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