Word: credos
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...avoid it. In 1970, the cause that once concerned lonely crusaders like Rachel Carson became a national issue that at times verged on a national obsession; it appealed even to people normally enraged by attacks on the status quo. With remarkable rapidity it became a tenet in the American credo, at least partially uniting disparate public figures ranging from Cesar Chavez to Barry Goldwater and New York's conservative Senator-elect James Buckley...
Over the next three days, the antismoking message is pounded home. At our first hypnosis seminar, Nemon shows us how to put ourselves into trances. As he talks, most of the listeners drop off, and Nemon intones the credo: tobacco is a poison to the body, you need your body to live, and thus you must protect your body from further poisoning...
...call it exhibitionism? He calls it Moral Courage and Mental Health. Talking is good. This is the center and the circumference of Charlie O.'s credo. The more talking, the better...
Open your well-dinned ears to the talk show that is life. Charlie O.'s credo has carried the day. The reticent man, even as he mutters "Crashing bore!" in the direction of the nearest Charlie O., is bullied into feeling that he suffers from constipation of the heart ("What are you holding back? Don't you care?"). The old valuestalk is cheap, "strong" goes with "silent" have been reversed. Articulate and outspoken: does praise come higher? He can't communicate: this is the kiss of death from kindergarten...
...Yannatos, who conducted the Mass, has an unusual approach to the piece. His interpretation was generally a novel one, filled with quick tempi and done with a bit too much fortissimo for my taste. But the piece hung together remarkably well under his direction, reaching its peaks in the Credo and the Agnus Dei. There were a few minor flaws, of course; the Kyrie went a bit too fast, the strings weakened during the Sanctus, and the horns were out of shape for the Gloria. The bass did not project as well as it could have, but this...