Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical terms. It uses the lessons of the past not to tear down everything we have thought, but to build up a new and bigger vision of the world. We must grasp these ideas, says Lorwin, if we are going to revitalize democracy and make it the dominant creed of the coming...
...show his peculiar position as forerunner of the Nazis. Their idealism is precisely the "soaring into metapolitics" Wagner wrote of. This theory of Wagner Viereck holds in common with Jacques Barzun and Reinhold Niebuhr, and is backed up by Hitler's own words. Nazi metapolitics, however, though a definite creed, runs across the grain of western life. It exalts irrationality and denounces reason...
...parade-ground voice never faltered. The ceremony went ahead on schedule. Four Generals were on hand, 30 staff officers, a platoon of soldiers. Declared Major General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the Armored Force: "In this, the greatest democracy the world has ever known, neither riches nor poverty, neither creed nor race, draws a line of demarcation in this hour of national crisis...
Foreign Secretary Eden tried to wriggle out of his faux pas by saying that he fully realized that the "essence of the [Nazi] creed and the essence of German practice for the last 100 years is that they are aggressive animals." Daily Mail Columnist Hannen Swaffer jumped on this with the question: "When did Eden find this out? On Tuesday when criticism appeared? On Wednesday when M.P.s of all parties began to murmur...
...enemies of our democratic way will find us one unbreakable phalanx in which class, creed and petty politics are forgotten...