Word: credos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time as the Victorian parlor was of its own. Like so much else from Cranbrook, the interiors evince a belief in the joy of design without the restraints of dogma, Weltanschauung, polemics, fad or fashion. At the same time, they live up to Founder Saarinen's credo that "the first thing and the most important one is to develop an adequate design to express our contemporary life." -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...victimless boozing. Why is sexism different' Perhaps it wouldn't be if there were more than a few women in the administration. In a university that is justly proud of a reputation for fair play, the Pi is an insult to all "Veritas" is a far more distinguished credo than "Boys will be boys...
...truths, but speaks metaphorically about such events as the creation or the movement of the sun. As Galileo said, quoting a churchman of his day, "The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach how to go to heaven and not how go the heavens." That is surely a credo any contemporary astronomer, indeed any 20th century scientist, can accept. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Wilton Wynn/Rome
...five ad agencies in the world; of a heart attack; in Chapel Hill, N.C. A pioneer of political commercials (for the 1952 Eisenhower campaign), he preached against mere "show window" ads that win art-direction awards, emphasizing instead a product's "unique selling proposition." Samples of his credo at work: ads for M & M candies ("They melt in your mouth, not in your hand"), and Anacin ("Fast, fast, fast relief...
...directly back to his first, heady days in Barcelona. The abused, overworked animals rebel against the rule of the exploiting farmer, Mr. Jones; but the workers' paradise is soon commandeered and betrayed by a pig who bears more than a fleeting resemblance to Joseph Stalin. His credo: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Animal Farm was rejected by more than a dozen publishers in England and the U.S. The clear anti-Soviet parody bothered many of them. After all, the U.S.S.R. was an ally in the crusade against Hitler. But the publishers...