Word: creed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plainness ran deeper than taste. It sometimes grew out of religious conviction--formal severity was built into the Puritan creed, for instance. But it also sprang from the social necessities of American life: the need to make and mend things for oneself, to fit and adapt to local materials. And it acquired a political dimension as metaphor...
...therein lies the self-medicator's quintessentially American creed: I can do it better. As usual, the boomers lead the way; 35-to-54-year-olds, Troup reports, consume more vitamins and supplements than any other group. From Flintstones vitamins to marijuana to echinacea. Back to the garden, indeed...
...question such a view. I do not begin every conversation with a prestatement of my creed of beliefs on the environment, civil rights, and economic policy...
...look beyond the eccentricities of Marshall Applewhite's creed is not to condone their odd assumptions--any more than one condones by saying, "I don't know how she could marry that spacey pagan." It is simply to acknowledge ignorance. "There is no one alive today," Arnold Toynbee once said, "who knows enough to say with confidence whether one religion has been greater than all others." And though the Heaven's Gaters' doctrine may seem as weird to us as ours apparently seemed to them, the wider tragedy of the cruel suicides would be if our own faith prevented...
...Pagan suckled in a creed outworn...