Word: creed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months ago for an educated man," the Rev. Cooper tells Keene, correctly. For the new settler has kept quiet about his Harvard education and the Protestant flock he once ministered to in Blue Hill, Me. The loss of his wife, whom he did not love, cost him a creed that he did not trust: "In whisky veritas. When Abby died, I was left alone with the Juvenal. Fearing I had been delivered into Satan's hands, I denied my faith rather than face God's wrath." He confesses to himself: "Within a year, I learned I could live without...
...least two days a week for the past three years. As a fervent preacher of conservative values and supply-side tax cuts, Kemp believes his appeal within his party's right wing is strong enough to allow him to broaden his base. Instead of simply sounding the Reaganite creed of self-reliance, Kemp stresses that government has a role in caring for the needy. Kemp's neopopulist rhetoric sometimes sounds as if it were lifted from a Jesse Jackson sermon. At a party conference in Grand Rapids last month, for example, Kemp complained, "It's pretty tough to pull yourself...
...recipients as evidence of the arbitrary nature of the system--a favorite example is the Shah of Iran, who got a degree in 1968. The critics also charge that deserving minorities and Jews--like Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis--were denied degrees specifically because of their race or creed...
...Thorn Birds (1977) will buy anything McCullough writes. But something else may be fueling this phenomenon. The appearance of perfection in any form is a rare and noteworthy event. News of its arrival is bound to spread, and perhaps, in this case, the word is already out: A Creed for the Third Millennium could well be the most perfectly awful novel ever published...
...CREED FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, McCullough...