Word: credos
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...display of grace, or disgrace, under pressure. Some witnesses are wily, some cringe, some babble to save themselves in a variety of plea bargaining, some show valor. It is honorable that Arthur Miller will incriminate no one but him self and that Lillian Hellman's credo is, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." But that does not automatically brand the men who confessed and "named names" as mor al lepers. When Stalin has been your god, how do you redeem your guilt...
Portraits of Ho Chi Minh abound, as do Viet Cong flags. The ten rules of behavior for soldiers (be polite to people, respect their property, among others) are posted everywhere. Moviehouses show revolutionary films exclusively. Schoolteachers are being "re-educated" to teach the new Marxist credo. ARVN officers who did not manage to escape are being held in custody, but enlisted men so far have only to carry an identity card issued by the P.R.G...
...What was Timothy Leary's credo...
...Kalb, Ill., which was a major manufacturing center for barbed wire in the late 1800s, is a favorite hunting ground. Armed with metal detectors, collectors forage through old farm land, overgrown ravines and even garbage dumps. Most obey a strict credo: ask permission before snipping a barb, and splice new wire in its place...
Rosenthal's explanation violated another credo of responsible journalists: that a newspaper should disclose the news it has and let others worry about the consequences. It is a journalistic ethic that might seem callous and irresponsible at first, but it makes great sense, because an editor can never know what the effects of disclosure will be. So why should he trap a good story in the morass of worthless hypotheses? The Times should know this more than other papers, because it was once badly burned by sitting with great civic pompousity on a piece of hot news...