Word: credo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warren, longtime governor of California and new Chief Justice of the U.S., was remarkably candid in specifying his hopes for the direction of U.S. justice over the next quarter-century. Satisfied that "the more cynical forms of 'legal realism' are growing less fashionable," Warren declared for a credo of legal idealism. "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive," he wrote in FORTUNE. "The beginning of justice is the capacity to generalize and make objective one's private sense of wrong." Earl Warren's Supreme Court has followed his direction...
...based on a Spanish drink called "Blood" * Beaumont beat out his 20th Century Folk Mass last week for the benefit of his church servers, who clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points in the score...
...years of giving, Ella Fondren has tried to keep her charities as secret as possible. But now and then, as last week, someone decides to honor her. On one such occasion, she dutifully accepted the honor, then summed up her own philanthropist's credo: "No individual is honored as an individual. His life takes on a dignity as the causes to which he attaches himself take on dignity...
...done for America to appear more than a commercial bargainer in clerical robes. Equally important, the speech may convince many Americans that the beliefs (idealistic enough) which they have held as individuals for some time may appear before the world as something wholly American. Certainly, as an Eisenhower credo, it is the best...
...then launched into a discussion of the "philosopher" from M.I.T. who stole $18,000 because he felt rejected, defined modern day isolationists ("Let's pick up our water and get out of the canal"), and explicated the credo of the modern radical ("I am going to change the world. . .as soon as I get dad's permission...