Word: creed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary Marxist" is the way Belgian Economist Ernest Mandel describes himself. In 1962 and again in 1968, Mandel toured the U.S., lecturing at a number of universities. But because of his openly announced political creed, Mandel had to receive special clearance by the Department of Justice to make the trip...
...incidence, he reports, is especially high among prostitutes and the poor, regardless of creed or color. The death rate is twice as high among low-income Negroes as among all whites, but no higher among high-income Negroes than among high-income whites. The incidence among Jewish women generally is extraordinarily low, although it rises a bit among the poor. Cervical cancer is least likely to attack women with fully circumcised husbands...
...times more servitudes," cries Muggeridee, and Savonarola in top form and full throat from the pulpit of the Duomo cried no louder. We are gabardine swine losing life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The real modern religion is "utopianism," and by that ism, Muggeridge means the universal creed of the modern world. No more "fatuous" slogan was ever devised than the pursuit of happiness asserted in the Declaration of Independence. "The darkness falls to idiot cries of progress achieved, of mankind having come of age," Muggeridge writes, "with vistas of technological bliss, and LSD trips over the hills...
Here, no bar of classes or creed...
Succeeding generations will know Mies' name, and perhaps even apply it to the epoch. Mies laid down a fundamental creed of honest structure. Skin-and-bones architecture, he called it. Born in 1886 in Aachen, Germany, he received no formal architectural education. But he learned from his father, a master stonemason, to value the particular heft and quality of pure materials. One of his first jobs consisted of designing stucco ornaments for a local architect-"full-size details of Louis XIV in the morning, Renaissance in the afternoon." The experience left him with a lasting disdain for the falseness...