Word: credo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is an entire half-inch of waste space at the beginning, during which the needle scrape-scrapes around, and the listener forgets what was happening at the end of the last side. All this without mentioning defects in the performance, such as Koussevitzky's ponderous tempo in the "Credo," and the inadequacy of the solo tenor...
...book is doubly interesting because 15 years ago Dr. Niebuhr was himself an outstanding exponent of the liberal credo he now seeks to discredit as opportunism, calling it "a religious accommodation to the prejudices of bourgeois culture." "I confess," he wrote in The Christian Century, "that between Versailles and Munich I underwent a conversion which involved rejection of almost all the liberal theological ideals and ideas with which I first ventured forth. My first book contains almost all the windmills against which today I tilt." In the light of history, especially from 1920 to 1940, he finds liberal optimism about...
...Form Credo...
...credo of the new organization is: "We do not minimize the serious and far-reaching implications of direct military action for the economy and institutions of the United States. But we believe that a totalitarian victory would constitute a more serious threat to the economic, political, and moral aspects of the American way of life than a war to prevent such a victory...
With his fellow members of the building committee, Industrialist Irwin made no hasty move towards modernism. Fundamentalist in thinking as well as in faith, they first set down their desires in a joint credo of architectural aims and religious belief...