Word: creed
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...more grateful than they are. Abe Lincoln, the patriarch of their party, did not, according to his law partner of 22 years, believe in a personal God, and refused to join a church, stating "When you show me a church based on the Golden Rule as its only creed, then I will unite with it." Ulysses S. Grant, another Republican, exhorted his countrymen to "Keep the church and state forever separate" and strongly opposed the use of any public money to support parochial schools -- as proposed in the 1992 Republican platform...
...Amish in Witness, why couldn't detective Melanie Griffith go undercover among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? The reason why not is A STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim to be cute and noble -- E.T.s with yarmulkes. Only Eric Thal, as a young scholar, emerges with dignity intact and prospects bright...
Unfortunately, the creed of amateurism ill fit a world in which competition was being democratized, the popularity of sport was burgeoning, and standards of competition were rising. Nonetheless, the rules were followed strictly, even vindictively, and never more so than in the case of Jim Thorpe, U.S. winner of both the decathlon and the now discontinued pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. The following year, it was discovered that Thorpe had received $25 a week to play baseball during the summers of 1909 and '10 -- a common practice for college athletes, many of whom used aliases. Thorpe was stripped...
...creed resisted reform for as long as it did largely because of Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to '72. An American self-made millionaire and Olympian -- he had placed sixth in the 1912 pentathlon behind Thorpe -- Brundage had convictions that were nothing short of religious. "The Olympic movement today," he thundered, "is a revolt against 20th century materialism -- a devotion to the cause and not the reward...
...being packaged by a group of slick operators more interested in returning to power than in revolutionizing government. That argument is reminiscent of the "Let Reagan be Reagan" true believers who accused Washington insiders of badly serving the former President's interests whenever he veered away from the conservative creed...