Word: credos
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...Credo hercle esse,' dixit...
...miners become a lynch mob, roaring their own credo: "Depend on hate! Our gold needs hate!" But the migrants are protected by Captain Sutter, and that night in his barn the woman gives birth to a boy. At dawn the sunlight forms a cross in the stable, and the golddiggers' chorus chants: "We have been fools, we have been fools," then concludes in a closing hymn, "Love turns...
...only 70% of its time, and the program jockeyed uncomfortably between the three networks. The years also saw some memorable shows: Peter Ustinov playing "The Life of Samuel Johnson," Leonard Bernstein describing "What Makes Opera Grand," Joseph Welch pondering "Capital Punishment." The program had lived up to the credo of its imaginative producer, Robert Saudek: "I don't believe in the principle of the high rating. My faith lies in the well-conceived idea, the well-written word, the well-spent dollar...
...this uncompromising and ungrammatical way, Sewell Lee Avery once pronounced his business credo. For 50 of his 86 years a chief executive, Sewell Avery was the epitome of the autocratic tycoon who believed there was room at the top for only one. He battled the growth of labor unions, the New Deal and his own executives. (In 24 years as boss of Montgomery Ward, he had four presidents and 40 vice presidents exit suddenly.) One of the few battles he lost was to President Roosevelt and the U.S. during a wartime labor dispute. But he refused to retreat...
...Personally," Painter Jean Dubuffet once declared, "I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness." No one can accuse Dubuffet of being false to his credo, for his paintings (see color) often seem to be the work of a savage or a madman-or a child. They have caused gasps of shock and hoots of derision; yet today a Dubuffet canvas can command as much as $30,000, and among critics it is now the thing to say that Dubuffet himself is the most important painter to come out of postwar France...