Word: credos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MICHAEL HARRINGTON doesn't buy the New Pessimism of the seventies. He doesn't believe the credo of the inevitability of poverty or inequality. Harrington's attitude is either naive or refreshing, depending on your political bent. Reading his book, however, is sort of like plunging into ice-cold water on a hot, lazy day--an initial shock, recoil, and then invigoration. For Harrington offers a seductive programme, a rejection of the seventies' acquiescence to in-justice. He tries to persuade us to hope again...
Finding out how good you are is almost an obsession with Billy Cleary. On or off the ice, the closest he has to a credo is this...
Urbane, open-minded and endowed with a joshing good humor, Sovern calls himself a subscriber to the "broad approach to liberal arts study," and hopes to build on it. Does that mean imposing some new credo or curriculum on the university? "Wise presidents do not impose," he says, in a lesson on mediation. "They encourage...
...presences, expected to behave accordingly. You cluck prettily. You smooth your feathers nicely. You don't try to take over the barnyard. When Carolyne Mas says, "I'm not a chick singer," she is not so much handing down a manifesto as setting up an aesthetic credo. Mas has no special interest in forcing some shotgun wedding of feminist politics and rock; neither do the others. They sing songs of personal reflection, not propaganda. But the rock business will not let you forget how you look...