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...dreams to please their mate or children. However, I do hope we've reached the point where we can be creative enough to conceive of ways to blend the joys and hardships of the home with the rigors of the workplace. I'm a firm believer in the credo that necessity is the mother, or better, the parent, of invention...
...strategist." RMI was her idea. It was 1980; they were driving from California to New Hampshire for a teaching gig. Finances were not good. "I asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up," Hunter recalls. To make the world better through "design mentality," Amory replied. That credo--shorthand for high efficiency, no waste--has made RMI a global consulting and research firm with an annual budget close to $5 million...
...with makers of just about everything. "When industries are competing at equal price and functionality, design is the only differential that matters," says Dziersk, echoing the credo first spouted in the '30s by Raymond Loewy, father of industrial design. Loewy was the man who gave America the Lucky Strike pack and the sleek Greyhound bus, and when he added a flourish to the Coldspot refrigerator, to make it look just a little more streamlined than its 1934 competitors, Sears' sales skyrocketed...
...religious faith: "Almighty God rules over mankind/and always has." But the characters in the poem behave according to a moral code in which loving one's enemies and hoping to be redeemed in heaven figure not at all. As Beowulf prepares to fight his second monster, he announces his credo: "It is always better/to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning./For every one of us, living in this world/means waiting for our end. Let whoever can/win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,/that will be his best and only bulwark...
...Tonalists had a credo, it might be the lines of Whitman set by Liebermann in his Second Symphony: "Sing to my soul, renew its faith and hope...give me some vision of the future." Their confident vision of the future of American classical music is on display all this season, giving concertgoers and record buyers who are tired of warmed-over Brussels sprouts more reasons for standing ovations. Last November, Moravec's electrifying Mood Swings premiered in New York City, and three more New York premieres follow this May--Tsontakis' Ghost Variations for piano, Martin's song cycle The Glass...