Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, two New Jersey legislators introduced bills that would bar schools from flying the black liberation flag-or, for that matter, any ethnic or national banner other than the U.S. flag. Said Newark Assemblyman Anthony Imperiale: "The American flag is for all men, regardless of race, color or creed...
...that may face the 10.8 millionmember United" Methodist Church is typical. Last month its Committee on Family Life issued a resolution implicitly condoning sex for single persons, homosexuals, and those living in unspecified "other styles of interpersonal relationship." The resolution cuts directly across the church's venerable Social Creed, which states that "sexual intercourse outside the bonds of matrimony is contrary to the will of God." The decision on whether to adopt the resolution as official teaching will be made by the church's General Conference in Atlanta next April. The conference must FARR,S also consider...
...PRESS. Through Christiana Securities, the family owns 100% of the stock in the company that publishes the state's two largest and most influential newspapers, the Wilmington Morning News and Evening Journal. Creed Black, editor from 1960 to 1964, quit when a Du Pont public relations man was put in above him; the owners, said Black, obviously wanted "house organs instead of newspapers." But now, insists Irenée Jr., the editors "call the shots the way they see them." He says that if the papers were sold to two separate owners, as the report recommends, they would probably...
Last month, at the international music congress in Moscow, U.S. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin voiced a daring wish. "May we yet live to see the day," said Menuhin. "when every human being can dwell where his heart calls, whatever his creed." That is no more than is guaranteed under Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the Soviet Union is a signatory. But it is more than Moscow dares grant its citizens, and so not a word of Menuhin's speech was printed in the Soviet press...
...matter what his race, creed or financial status, the American male under 5 ft. 8 in.-the height of the average American man-is a victim of discrimination. That is the conclusion of a Cleveland sociologist who has begun a personal crusade against a seldom mentioned form of prejudice that, like racism and sexism, is well established in U.S. society: heightism...