Word: credo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it honors the dead, the Kaddish takes no attitude toward immortality. The Jews, says Rabbi Bernstein, have never agreed on what happens after death, though most of them in recent centuries have recited the Credo of Maimonides, the great 12th Century physician-philosopher who believed in the physical resurrection of the dead. "But the hearts of many stricken Jews have also echoed the lament of Job: 'As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.' It is growing harder for modern Jews to believe...
...positive side, he keeps his credo short and sharp: "Trust only the men who laugh with relish. I trust Shakespeare more than Corneille, Mark Twain more than Henry James, Robert Frost more than T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway more than Thomas Mann. They do not expect to vanquish folly from the world overnight...
...shadow of the past and the possible," reason fosters the only kind of precarious progress there is-"perfections after our own kind in our own time and place." Says Santayana: "The circle neither envies the square nor wishes to devour it." "Live and let live" is his implied credo...
...time young Scripps turned in after dawn, he had firmly twisted one of Christ's sayings to his own future uses: "It is more profitable to give wages, than to receive them." Some weeks later, sitting in the Colosseum in Rome on a moonlit night, he extended his credo: "Let the other fellow have all the glory. Let him occupy the place in the limelight. For me, I only care to have the power...
...year-old E. W. Scripps was head of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers (24), founder-boss of the United Press and of a whole clutch of lesser enterprises. But anybody looking for an orderly record of Scripps's empire-building-or for an inspirational credo to put into the hands of journalism students-had better look elsewhere...