Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service industries. Others have demonstrated that aggressive (and often expensive) organizing can still win members. Since being kicked out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 1957 for Jimmy Hoffa's happy hooliganism, the Teamsters have actually grown from 1,600,000 to 1,760,000. Hoffa's creed is simple: if it breathes, organize it. The Teamsters include hairdressers in Newark, employees at an animal cemetery in Illinois, stewardesses for the Flying Tiger airline and attendants at the San Diego...
...Educated at the Sorbonne and Oxford, a world-famed author and lecturer, a leftward-leaning pillar of England's Establishment, Barbara Ward, 51, acquired at the top the same idealistic bent to which Lyndon Johnson aspired from the bottom. It can best be described as messianic materialism, a creed that renders unabashedly both to Caesar and to conscience...
Leaders of the major civil rights organizations have made nonviolence both a creed and a potent psychological -weapon of their campaign. But few were surprised by last week's eruptions. Many Negro leaders, in fact, had long warned that violence is an inevitable if unwelcome weapon in their struggle. Some of their statements, past and present BAYARD RUSTIN, who planned the 1963 march on Washington: "I think the real cause is that Negro youth-jobless, hopeless-does not feel a part of American society. The major job we have is to find them work, decent housing, education, training...
...seducing women" by quoting it. Seventeen magazine, noting Prophet's popularity, quoted a teenage-girl reader to the effect that "it is unique and just right for clearing cobwebs and refueling weary souls." In a word, it seems to provide a philosophy for the somewhat immature, a creed for the vaguely well-meaning, a consolation for those who think religion is a misty feeling...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...