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Goudge ended the interview by reiterating her credo: the success of her books with the general public is enough for her; she does not really care what the reviewers think. With typical wit, however, she did express the hope that The Crimson review of Such Devoted Sisters would not be "too Harvardish...
...boyish-faced, tousle-haired Sachs hardly looks like someone who would make a practice of unleashing economic revolutions. Son of a Detroit labor lawyer, he was a full professor at Harvard at 29. Competition is the core of the Sachs credo. Countries as diverse as Argentina under the generals, Portugal under Salazar and the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, he argues, condemned themselves to stagnation by opting out of the competitive international economy...
...Humphry says that "suicide for reasons of depression has never been part of the credo of the Hemlock Society...
...Shamir's credo is that Arabs hate Israelis until proved otherwise. This belief impels him to seek concrete evidence of Syria's sincerity, something he can obtain only by moving to the peace table. His instinct is to delay, but he fears that he might squander the best chance Israel has seen to make peace. "We must start negotiations," Shamir said Friday, "and we want to start them...
...Thus the credo "Quit while you're ahead" may have inspired last week's announcement: Tartikoff was leaving NBC to head Paramount Pictures...