Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some young Russians look back romantically on the '205 and the "purity" of a revolutionary creed that has somehow dissolved into the cynical conformity of the society they know. Snorted a character in a short story published in Youth Magazine: "Heroism, self-sacrifice! That's what the journalists write about. But look around: what everyone's worrying about is how to grab off more for himself." The young idolize Fidel Castro, whose revolution in their eyes embodies the authentic ideological fervor that has gone from their own. This vision was heightened by Poet Evtushenko, who visited Cuba...
...traditions and ideals." In perhaps his most optimistic assessment of world affairs since taking office, Kennedy expressed confidence that these nations will choose freedom, not Communism, and that "no one can doubt that the wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free...
...Devil. Wanderhope's family (like De Vries's own) are Dutch Calvinists who worship "a god scarcely distinguishable from the devil they fear." But when his elder brother dies pointlessly at the age of 19, Don loses his faith and adopts his brother's creed of worldliness and atheism...
...women are not only women but are people. They're not special creatures. They're up to their elbows in life. We just treated women as people." As editors of the Ladies' Home Journal, Charles Bruce and Beatrice Blackmar Gould wove'this simple and sympathetic creed into every issue of their magazine...
...squeamish passage in which Shannon relates to Hannah how he once saw the natives of an unnamed country scavenge a dung heap for undigested food. In the internal logic of the play, the speech is fully justified, for Shannon is testing Hannah and her previously stated creed that "nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind...