Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-year fight; under the association's national bylaws, the court said, Washington had a right to exclude anyone it chose. Last week, at its national convention in Seattle, the A.A.U.W. voted to change the bylaws and require the admission of any college alumna "regardless of race, color, creed or religion...
...Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor Roosevelt...
Published this week is a new Sayers book that lies somewhere between the two. Creed or Chaos (Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is a collection of seven essays on contemporary Christianity, turned out with all the phrasemaking flair of a veteran bestseller writer. "The Christian faith," she writes, "is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama...
...that has been more often denned than that having to do with the salvation of the soul," said Lebanon-born Dr. Fakhri Maluf, 36, assistant professor of philosophy, who became a member of the Roman Catholic Church nine years ago. "Pope after pope has spoken on it. The Athanasian creed opens with the statement: 'Whosoever wishes to be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith...
...provides for a formal declaration on the part of Massachusetts that in accordance with "the American ideal of equality of opportunity...students otherwise qualified be admitted to (non-sectarian) educational institutions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, or national origin...