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...easy to make money. You put up the sign 'BANK' and someone walks in and hands you his money. The facade is everything." Christina Stead, "Credo" from House of All Nations...
...think--without the cerebral pleasures of Resnais's earlier experiments in film technique, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, although traces of the narrative trademarks worked out in those films persist into this one. House of All Nations, for all the up-to-date sound of its "Credo," was written in 1936; it was an examination of a phenomenon that still existed. Stavisky is nostalgia for two things--first, for the eternal appeal of the rogue, the high-energy, affable cheap who spends more money than he screws out of other people; second, for the miasma...
...participate in what has become the world's fastest-growing business?the arms trade. The contracts they sign in one day could easily exceed a lifetime of sales made by the "merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths, all follies...
...Tory Credo. The more immediate concern of the party's liberal wing, however, is the fear that Mrs. Thatcher's aggressive championing of middle-class values may alienate working-class voters. Under the leadership of Macmillan, Home and Heath, the Conservatives had increasingly modified their traditional commitment to free-market policies, accepting a degree of both social welfarism and state interference in business. Mrs. Thatcher wants to reverse that trend and spearhead a return to a more traditional Tory credo: "I believe that a person who is prepared to work harder should receive greater rewards and keep them...
...minister as a five-year-old Iowa farm boy, and was later ordained by the Reformed Church in America, his religion business did not take off till he arrived in California two decades ago. He had little more than a $500 grant from his denomination and a simple credo: "Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it." The hurt, he reasoned, was greatest among agnostic transients flooding the West...