Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officially scheduled dinner. "He gets there after everybody has eaten," says his wife Nancy. "But they don't seem to mind." And meanwhile, she adds, "Pete has told me and the children what is going on." Junie Butler, wife of a Virginia Congressman, states this creed for the wife determined to avoid being submerged by the political life: "If my husband doesn't like my image, he can get a new model. If his constituents don't like my image, they can get a new Congressman. I feel my part is to have a solid family...
...Institutions are changing in ways that their leaders cannot always grasp. Churches have been dramatically altered by internal disputes over questions of social activism, morals and even creed. Educators have grown uncertain about the social and intellectual purposes of education. Politicians throughout the West have trouble determining the boundaries involved in a free-enterprise system mixed with government control. Moreover, in place of the heady economic expansion of the past quarter-century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth?inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least...
Northerners have already accepted as part of their creed a modern statement of doctrine known as the Confession of 1967. The liberal majority in the Southern church is still trying to develop such a contemporary formulation, but fierce opposition from the denomination's vocal conservative wing may well prevent any new creed from winning the required support: 75% of the church's presbyteries. Some conservatives, however, are quitting the battle. Last year more than 55,000 of them, mostly in the Deep South, established their own National Presbyterian Church. As many as 200,000 more might break away...
...Japanese teachers, more than any other professional group, felt the burden of guilt for having trained their pupils in militarism. When the Nikkyoso was formed in 1947, one of its tenets was a pledge "never again to send our children to war," which teachers still take as a sacred creed...
Unfortunately, another faction is trying to gnaw away impartially at all of them, without regard to race, creed, color or state of mental health. It is a herd of vampire bats, who are understandably annoyed at the way their neighborhood is being run down. They are rather more clever than you would give them credit for - short-circuiting the lights at will, squirming through air-conditioning ducts to bite the folks good night. After a while, indeed, one begins to suspect that they had a chaw or two on the wiring of the computer that picked this lot of survival...