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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...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Billy Cleary's Winning Ways | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Favorite Son | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chick Singers Need Not Apply | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...their proudest moments) a name the six Harvard graduates gave to the organization they hoped would bring them together every year. The "club"--it has no permanent home--now fields entries in several events and, as a group, finished 26th in overall points. And Parker races under the A.A. credo in his single sculling...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Battle of (Aging) Titans | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...artists' nature to be agents of change, to transform the world. they are apprentices of freedom." Nadine Gordimer states this credo clearly, but proves it by her fiction. Burger's Daughter, her latest novel, which was banned until last week in South Africa, presents a passionate argument for social and political change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artists' Commitment | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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