Word: credos
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Lonely Man. School was the same. Manhattan's Ethical Culture Schools tried to find a moral equivalent for religion (credo: "Deed, not Creed") and went in for the production of quiz kids. By the time he graduated, Robert could read Caesar, Virgil and Horace without a Latin dictionary, had read Plato and Homer in the Greek, composed sonnets in French, and tackled treatises on polarized light...
...addressing the 150th anniversary session of Congress, he had stated his credo: "We are here not as masters but as servants . . . We serve our hour by unremitting devotion to the principles which have given our Government both stability and capacity for orderly progress in a world of turmoil and revolutionary upheavals." Last week, having fulfilled his faithful servant's role, Charles Evans Hughes, 86, died...
Tugwell had been soundly sat on at the party's Philadelphia convention. As chairman of the platform committee, he had tried for a credo which would reflect the views of "oldfashioned American progressives." Instead, Lee Pressman, committee secretary, rammed through a platform which faithfully reflected the Communist line. It now seemed obvious to Tugwell that the Communists had taken over...
After sleeping on it and reading their morning newspapers, however, M.P.s were wide awake. St. Laurent's speech, said the Ottawa Citizen, "bids fair to become the most significant declaration made in peacetime on Canadian foreign policy." Said the Montreal Gazette: St. Laurent "stated a credo of national defense that every Canadian will applaud...
...that of Koussevitzky's last night that the Missa can transcend such a fog of intellectualism, can transcend the secularism of Symphony Hall, teeming with myriad nobodies feverishly clutching their programs. But by so great a performance it can and did transcend these bonds and become the religious credo that it was meant to be. To explain verbally what this meaning is is quite hopeless. The critic pokes into a piece of music from the outside with a long pointed stick, but he can never get at the real essence. To anyone in the audience last night, the meaning could...