Word: credos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this anecdote, Fuller loves to emphasize that the Israelis are survivors. This same heavy-handed irony slips into The Big Red One only in the final scene, when Fuller cannot restrain his narrator (Fuller himself, since the film is largely autobiographical) from underlining the message about survival. Fuller's credo is a realistic twist of the cliche of sportsmanlike competition: it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you live...
...this anecdote, Fuller loves to emphasize that the Israelis are survivors. This same heavy-handed irony slips into The Big Red One only in the final scene, when Fuller cannot restrain his narrator (Fuller himself, since the film is largely autobiographical) from underlining the message about survival. Fuller's credo is a realistic twist of the cliche of sportsmanlike competition: it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you live...
That defiant declaration by Nelson Mandela, the black political leader who has been imprisoned for the past 17 years, has become an underground credo in South Africa ever since it was smuggled out of the Robben Island prison. Last week Mandela's grim prophecy seemed to be coming true even sooner and more viciously than expected. In both black and "colored" (mixed-race) townships-first in Soweto and then in Elsies River near Cape Town-crowds of rioting youths clashed with police on three successive nights. Barrages of stone throwing were answered with baton charges, volleys of tear...
Taking as their credo the saying "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me," the Islanders stormed out of the locker room intent on quickly securing their third overtime win in four games. New York pressed for the coup de grace, but Cheevers denied numerous bids in the first few minutes of sudden death and gave his teammates a chance to gain equilibrium...
...concentration of wealth, preventing full employment and decreasing social and economic mobility. The goals of corporate America, Harrington argues, undermine the American ideal they claim to uphold. Harrington understands that most Americans, even those hurt by corporate strategies (such as attacking inflation with high unemployment), subscribe to a national credo of individual opportunity and economic mobility. These national ideals can't be realized when all the opportunities belong to Exxon. Harrington's closely argued book debunks these myths and proposes programs to make his version of the American dream--democratized ownership and widely diffused wealth and political power--come true...