Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became the first Jew to receive tenure in the English department) Trilling slowly gained the reputation of someone more than a courtly scholar. His doctoral dissertation on Matthew Arnold was published in 1939-in the heyday of the textual analyses by the New Criticism-and it restated the Arnoldian creed that "a work of literature ... has value as a criticism of life...
...previous activities had alienated the Court; his new creed divorced him from the Russian literary circles, which remained primarily oriented towards utopian socialism and anarchism. Anna describes his love-hate relationship with both the political and literary establishments. He became ecstatic upon reading a favorable opinion of himself in comparison to Tolstoy, and constantly complained about literary "cliques" from which he felt excluded. He cut off relations with a life-long friend who had failed to introduce him to Tolstoy. Towards the end, Dostoevsky cultivated the friendship of Grand Dukes, and expressed his admiration for Tsar Alexander III. The last...
Nader, a 1958 Harvard Law School graduate, said that if the goal of law schools is to "develop necessary analytic and empirical skills to further justice," they are actually working against their professed creed...
...basic tenets of the feminist movement is that there are no important inherent differences between the sexes. That creed is being challenged on two fronts...
...book, follows from the findings of Beyond the Melting Pot, their study of New York's ethnics published twelve years ago which concluded that ethnic ties and characteristics were strong and showed no signs of disappearing. Their book was one of the first to challenge the liberal creed that all the people whose grandparents had passed through Ellis Island were assimilating into one homogenized mass of apple pie-eating Americans...