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...This credo is at the heart of what scares traditionalists about the market and entices the newer generation. I was schooled at Goldman Sachs--could it be just 15 years ago?--that nothing could be safer, and have less risk, than U.S. Treasuries. They set the safety benchmark against which you could measure everything else, and when I got in the business, that benchmark was a hefty 14%. That return, backed by the full faith and credit of Uncle Sam, was simply too competitive to even consider equities. Stocks had done nothing for a generation; bonds seemed like the only...
...Credo best exemplified Beethoven's gifts for text-painting. In a description of Christ's resurrection, the chorus vividly repeated the word "descendit," (he descended) in a motif that alternated between the orchestra and chorus. The forceful repetitions ended with a descending solo clarinet figure. This line, which was unfortunately marred by a bad note, fell, as if from the heavens, to the pure tones of the unaccompanied quartet intoning the "Et incarnatus..." The Credo ended on a lighter note with a playful fugue on the text of "Et vitam venturi saeculi," (and the life of the world to come...
...with a soft face and hair flopping over his forehead, Gardner looks a bit like the concert pianist he might have been if he had pursued that career. After a long discussion of the merits of his theory, he tried to sum up his views. "Here's a credo I've never stated before," he said. "I'm sure there are lots of different intelligences. I'm sure kids differ in their profiles. I'm sure an educational approach that pays attention to this is going to be more effective than one that denies...
Recognizing the diversity of his audience, Gates urged all members to "learn to find the rough magic of the cultural mix" and ended with the advice: "We must strive to live by Martin Luther King Jr.'s credo, 'None of us is free until all of us are free...
True, a foreign policy of least resistance has its attractions. It avoids trouble--for now. It is always the credo of appeasers that they saved real lives, which their critics would blithely sacrifice--to what purpose? Saving face? Power? Principle? Abstractions. If you prick them, do they bleed...