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...time to attain. The downturn has re-emphasized the virtues of hard work and self-reliance and has brought about a modest revival of the puritan ethic. None of this means that recessions are desirable. The goal of rising prosperity is not only a fundamental part of the American credo; it is absolutely essential to the solution of nearly all America's problems. But the recession has at least restored a certain sense of realism...
Penney's unwavering faith in the copybook maxims of his youth roused skepticism in a mercenary age, but his credo underlay his success. At his death last week after a heart attack in Manhattan, Penney, 95, left a 1,660-store empire that he built without compromising the stiff principles he had absorbed from three generations of Baptist-preacher ancestors. He neither smoked nor drank, and for years demanded the same abstemious conduct from his employees. "I believe in adherence to the Golden Rule, faith in God and the country," he often said. "I would rather be known...
...show's director, Peter Brook, is a man of many devices. His chief device is to defeat the traditional expectations of the audience. His credo might be "Accentuate the opposite." This credo links Marat/ Sade with King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Do we expect actors to move naturally on stage and to speak intelligible words? In Marat/ Sade, Brook made his actors move as if walking were a stylized, agonized abstraction of motion. The actors moaned, groaned, hissed and made surrealistic animal noises. Do we think of Lear as an arrogant red-hotheaded old king...
...This is my bible, my credo. The one thing that terrifies me, that makes me break out in a cold sweat at nights, is that I have not given any and every boy the right and necessary information," he said...
...devotion persists throughout the unremitting interrogation. "Better be wrong inside the party than right outside it" is the credo he clings to, recalling Rubashov in Darkness at Noon. But carefully, exhaustively, his interrogators ensnare him in a network of lies and half-truths. The process of psychic and physical torture erode his integrity, and eventually his inquisitors are able to persuade him to sign sentences and paragraphs that finally accumulate into a phony confession branding him a "Trotskyite" and a U.S. spy. It requires a seemingly endless 138 minutes for his interrogation and torture to resolve into the obligatory conclusion...