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...Handel. But apart from being a conductor and impresario. Beecham had another important career-he was a gadfly committed to "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land." His coat of arms might have been emblazoned with his personal credo: "Improve the standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" Beecham was sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially because he approached his music with a relaxed urbanity foreign to such great, tyrannical contemporaries as Toscanini or Reiner. Despite...
Dwight Eisenhower believed passionately in Abraham Lincoln's credo that the legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, by themselves." Even in recession he warned of the dangers of inflation, crusaded for a balanced budget with homilies about a well-run household and the future freedom of his grandchildren. In practice, Eisenhower budgets got bigger and taxes stayed high, but that was in spite of the Administration's ideals, not because of them...
...twisting mountain roads above the Chiffa gorge, was soon known locally as a casse-tout, or hellraiser. He believed that Algeria belonged to its French colonizers, distrusted Arabs, and eagerly embraced every right-wing idea from anti-Communism to antiSemitism. Popie was small, shy and intellectual, and his credo read: "I am an Algerian. I believe that Europeans can live in close friendship with the Moslems even if Algeria becomes independent...
...second printing will boost to 30,000 the number of copies of the study, which is called Keynes at Harvard, and is subtitled "Economic Deception as a Political Credo...
...best bargains. His Marble Arch branch in London makes more money per square foot than any other store in the world, says Sir Simon, even though goods are limited to women's clothes, men's shirts, socks and sweaters, and food specialties. His merchandising credo is to give everyone "a little bit of luxury, to make a factory girl look like a debutante." But his customers are not limited to factory workers. When Prince Rainier and his Princess visited Britain last year they stopped at an M. & S. store to buy the Prince some cardigan sweaters...