Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Groupers organized house parties for tennis, tea, and friendly arm-on-shoulder proselytizing. Groupers were encouraged to "get square with God" by "sharing" their sins in public confessions to their fellow members-a practice which led some outsiders to accuse Groupers of an undue interest in sex. No creed or doctrine was necessary. "Absolute Honesty, Absolute Purity, Absolute Unselfishness and Absolute Love" were the Buchmanite requirements, plus regular "quiet times" for listening...
Conant declared that "whether Protestant, Catholic, or Jew, active church-member or non-conformist, almost every American believes that human life is sacred." This is the ultimate basis of our democratic creed--the dividing line that separates "the believers in a free democracy from the adherents to the Soviet or fascist doctrines...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems. Irish-born Father Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1921 as a nonsectarian home for delinquents and orphans (his creed: "There is no such thing...
Five months before the November Presidential elections, the College has a tendency toward a political creed of "Liberal Republicanism," a poll of a cross-section of the student body released yesterday by the Free Enterprise Society shows...
...letters, too, Chekhov expresses himself most explicitly about his writing creed: "My goal is to kill two birds with one stone: to paint life in its true aspects, and to show how far this life falls short of the ideal life." A writer, he insisted, "must be as objective as a chemist ... he must know that dung-heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones." Chekhov...