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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same is true of all four periods of activism ("creedal passion") in our history--the Revolutionary era, the Jacksonian period, the Progressive era and the 1960s and early 70s. "In sum, creedal passion periods involve intense efforts by large numbers of Americans to return to first principles," an "American creed" represented by vague and symbolic words like freedom, equality, justice, and individual rights, and marked by a pervasive "antipower ethic...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Uses of Passion | 2/24/1982 | See Source »

...have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary, the nation has not relinquished its basic view of work as sacred and worklessness as sin. Proof that the old creed persists lies in the self-chastising of the unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Anguish of the Jobless | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Neither does anyone else. The men at prayer are among 10,000 surviving Kakure Kirishitan (crypto-Christians)-members of a fossilized faith that is unique in church annals. The poignant tale of the sect begins in 1549, when Jesuit Missionary Francis Xavier brought Roman Catholicism to Japan. The new creed soon gathered 300,000 followers, including most of the inhabitants of Ikitsuki, but its success also spelled its doom. Fearing the Christians' growth and foreign links, the warlord ruler Hideyoshi and later shogun mounted terror campaigns in which tens of thousands perished, often gruesomely. Christianity was all but stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Japan's Crypto-Christians | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...junior was the only racquetman extended to five games yesterday, as he abandoned the Harvard creed of patterns and placement to hold a bang session with Midshipman Tim Tinney and struggle...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Raquetmen Squash Navy, 9-0 | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

...MINOR LEGEND enshrouds the birth of what has come to be known as "supply-side economics"; few subjects have proven more reliable sources of popular folklore than the discovery of great scientific laws, and so it befits the hyperseriousness of the apostles of this creed to spread the influence of their theories. Joining the tales of Archimedes jumping up and down in his bathtub yelling "Eureka" and a prim and patrician Isaac Newton cursing the apple that hit him on the head is the fable of three men in business suits having dinner at a posh Washington restaurant. Arthur...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Supply-Side Blues | 11/18/1981 | See Source »

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