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...anything dangerous. When it gets dangerous I get lost." --The credo of Jim Rockford...
Goaded by Carson's wife Ruth (Diana Rigg), the two men do a certain amount of preachy credo-strutting. Night and Day is much concerned with the van ities and responsibilities of journalists and a free press. Ruth has the tart last word...
Love occurs frequently in The Bright Lights. She compares acting to love-making; "to act without love is cruel" is a credo she tries to teach her drama students at Julliard. When Seldes discusses the students, she transforms herself once again; face and voice now radiate maternal warmth. She understands their obsessions, their drives; she sympathizes with the "attempt to create a theater life before the theater accepts you." Such empathy comes naturally to her: "it's not possible to teach without relating to the students as human beings." From excitable little girl to understanding mother-figure, her metamorphosis...
...anti-nuclear movement, along with the entire environmental movement, is nothing less than a revolution. It is un-American in that it rejects America's credo since the Industrial Revolution--unlimited economic growth. In this way, the environmental movement threatens the very foundations of American capitalism. It proposes alternative values for America. And so, the environmentalists--once shunned and ridiculed by Americans--find themselves embroiled in a deadly serious political argument...
...restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force's giant B-52G. An unabashed aerophile who has never let his FAA license expire, Hannifin goes by a simple credo: "I fly whenever I get the chance." He drew on his lifetime of enthusiasm-and his 32-year career at TIME as an aerospace expert-to file for our cover story on the Revolution In Air Travel...