Word: credos
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...widow is murdered by the puritanical villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such is, says Kazantzakis, the destiny of man and all his works. This is the Greek tragic sense of life, and from it springs Zorba's credo: to live in, for and by each moment as if it were the first and the last. With this musical, one soon wishes each moment was the last...
...great Mass ever written. The Society's performance possessed a certain Antarctic charm completely devoid of devotional feeling, but was plunged into obliquy by mispronunciation in the Kyrie (Keer-eiyeh) and the sinusoidal vibrato of the soprano and alto soloists in the Gloria. The choir plodded through the long Credo with sacerdotal vindictiveness but decided to clear up its wooly tone for the exquisite Sanctus. It was on the whole a bloodless performance of an intensely religious work...
...puritanical Catholic schooling-the nuns frowned on the theater- were hardly needed to complete the job. Before he was 15, young Eugene had cut himself off from his church, but not from his sense of damnation. "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell" was his new credo. He had become the most savage of insurrectionists: the rebel with a bad conscience. In one of his last interviews he confessed: "Revenge is the subconscious motive for the individual's behavior with the rest of society...
Such is the credo of the traditional, the watchman force, now disappearing due to what is loosely called professionalism--a term which Wilson uses sparingly...
After Ted's adventure in Selma, I felt a little left out. If a civil rights worker's credo was: I am harrassed, therefore I exist, what was I doing? Why didn't any rednecks resent my presence and want to threaten...