Word: credo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well be argued without the protagonists' defining what they mean by Christian goodness and that seems to allow a wide interpretation. Let me suggest, however, that there are individuals who are naïve enough to associate Christian goodness with such statements as the credo of John D. Rockefeller Jr. published in the same issue of TIME, also with President Roosevelt's widely applauded four freedoms, also with the professed reasons of the Allies for fighting this...
...before the White House, protesting aid to Britain-purely in the interests of peace. When A.P.M. gave up picketing as futile just before Germany attacked Russia, it did not recede from its stand one iota. But last week, after Russia was attacked, A.P.M. came forth with a vast new credo: an embargo on Japan, all-out aid to almost everyone, including Great Britain, China and-er-the Soviet Union...
Later, at a soiree, she discovers that her shelter mate is the guest of honor. Their hostess (Billie Burke) is a giddy lady who believes that "into the life of every English girl a little American should fall." Not in sympathy with that credo, Miss Carroll scampers home, gets into bed, puts on her gas mask and ponders whether the right man could see through its ugliness into her soul. As if to find out, she crawls on all fours to a wall mirror and barks at herself...
Last week an opportunity came to President Roosevelt to speak of the faith that moves him personally. Dedicating a plain white brick house in Staunton, Va., where Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born, he turned a simple dedicating address into a statement of his credo...
Perry Miller contributes a Faculty Credo that is more nearly intellectual history. His thesis: "When the scholar or the educator falls behind the march of the society," others will seize his position of leadership, "for leadership there must and shall be." That is the present prosect, since American education has not "fitted the American mind to cope with the issues of American life...