Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over 20 centuries, all branches of Christianity barred openly committed homosexuals from the clergy and from lay offices. Virtually all major U.S. churches still do. But the increasingly organized and vocal campaign by homosexuals to be treated just like everyone else poses particular problems for Christian churches. Their creed commands brotherhood and forgiveness, but it also obliges them to defend specific standards of conduct based on the Bible...
...small world of opinion magazines, creed is usually constant. Rarely are readers surprised by where the New Republic, for instance, National Review, Commentary or Atlantic comes down on a given issue. Harper's is something else. The 128-year-old monthly has changed editors three times since 1967, creating a slight zigzag effect. Now the magazine once known for its cheerful progressivism appears to have taken a tendentious turn to the right...
Aiything the rest of the world can do, Dallas can do bigger and better is a local creed that pervades everything from the palatial mansions of Highland Park and the outrageously expensive bagatelles of Nei-man-Marcus to the ample, amply displayed busts of the famous Cowboy cheerleaders. Other teams have cheerleaders, but none has chosen them with so much care as Dallas?and then put them in uniforms with so little cloth. Nearly 700 women try out each fall for the 36 low-neckline, high-kicking jobs. While the Chosen Ones receive little pay ($15 per game), they...
Frank McLaughlin's philosophy of basketball matches his proselytizing spirit off the court. Harvard's new head coach is trying to convert as many people as possible to his creed of bornagain Harvard basketball while at the same time converting his players to a fastbreaking, end-to-end brand of hoop...
...Paul to choose a new primate last week, the tensions between the church's old-country past and New World present were plain. The cathedral's choir insisted on singing in Old Church Slavonic, eschewing the English now used in most O.C.A. parishes. When it came time for the creed, however, one of the visiting priests began chanting hesitantly in English, "I believe in one God ..." Joyously, the entire congregation joined him. Soon after, in a major break with tradition, the church chose its first American-born leader...