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...figures still had credibility then, but even as the going got rougher and rougher, no one, and nothing, intimidated David. He was completely committed to the belief that as free journalists we had a duty to find the truth and tell it to the American people. It was a credo he practiced through his years of newspapering and in writing the many distinguished books that followed. It is a credo that makes certain his legacy endures...
Einstein tried to express these feelings clearly, both for himself and all of those who wanted a simple answer from him about his faith. So in the summer of 1930, amid his sailing and ruminations in Caputh, he composed a credo, "What I Believe," that he recorded for a human-rights group and later published. It concluded with an explanation of what he meant when he called himself religious: "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion...
...bound as the stars in their motions," Einstein declared in a statement to a Spinoza Society in 1932. It was a concept he drew also from his reading of Schopenhauer. "Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity," he wrote in his famous credo. "Schopenhauer's saying, 'A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills,' has been a real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life's hardships, my own and others', and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance...
...hear all of Loesser's smarts and sparks in Guys and Dolls - fast and forceful, perennially revived and the one period musical that never loses its topicality. That show exemplifies the credo Loesser lived by: "LOUD is good." Which echoes in a comment Hutton made in the TCM interview: "Oh, I couldn't sing good, but boy, I sure sang loud!" Talk about true minds meeting: Loesser was just the fella to put funny words in her big mouth...
...narrator of the show. All of the transitions are going to be a single guitar playing. In line with the subtlety of the music, the technical aspects of the show cater to the directors’ minimalist philosophy. Salas: Our style for the show, which is also our credo, is to give more agency to the actors than the director. Everything is stripped down, the timing is neutral, the set is minimal, the costumes are softly suggesting a militaristic setting, but are still abstract. Salas and Mead chose “Julius Caesar” because they believe it?...