Word: credo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injections by adding five new columns (the Alsops, Robert Ruark, Earl Wilson, Lee Bedford's "Southern Exposure," Carter's own weekly, "Looking at the South," already syndicated in 16 other papers). In the lead Times editorial, Publisher Carter tapped out a clean-cut statement of his own credo: "We want [the Times] to be a mirror in which the community can see its full face. If the face appears smudged sometimes it will not be the fault of the newspaper . . . We won't seek controversy for the sake of controversy or shun it for the sake...
...trapped in a void between the freedom-stifling regime of the Communists and the naive bewilderment of the Americans. He does nothing to resolve the dilemma. Some say he personally is turning to mysticism. For the rest of the Europeans, perhaps an intelligent and serious restatement of the American credo would be of help...
Critics may know what readers should read, but it is the booksellers who are sure they know what readers want. Last December, glooming over low fiction sales, Retail Bookseller bluntly expressed a credo of the trade: "The truth is that the public really doesn't want books worth buying so much as books that everybody is talking about ... a book like Forever Amber, a book that the righteous and the literary will deplore...
...likely to attract the most callous student. Yet most students do not heel their way up the extra-curricular ladder for the sale goal of "going Bones," or at least they say they don't. The six tombs are more important as the extreme result of the Yale credo of success, and as an exaggerated example of it. For the spooks' philosophy is that the world can best be run by themselves, the outstanding men of Yale. In brutal wrestling matches and communal criticism, they prepare each other for success in life. Bonesmen Henry Luce, Robert A. Taft, Archibald MacLeish...
...less radical form, this success credo is the credo of Yale. So is the narrow definition of success. Because success comes only to the highest men in the extra-curricular strats and in athletics, both draw a heavy crowd of participants at Yale. Just as life at Princeton centers on the social clubs, existence at Yale revolves around extra-curricular activ- ities. Almost everyone has a loyalty to at least one, and most students spend over an hour a day on it. The desire to belong, and that way get some measure of prestige, leads to such activities...