Word: creed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arguing that diversity is bad. Clearly, few of us would want to attend a school where everyone shared the same color, creed and interest...
...made faiths, especially Southern Baptism, where he stumbles badly, and Mormonism, which he lauds for odd originality. Pentecostalism? "Daring." New Age? Can't read the stuff. A portentous subtitle transmits Bloom's wish: "The Emergence of the Post- Christian Nation." Oh, yes. Bloom thinks America's hidden creed is Gnosticism, and, for the American, god is none other than himself...
...Brown hasn't always been a populist. Ever obedient to his creed of flexibility, he has at times defined himself as heir to his father's political throne, as dreamer, environmentalist, rock 'n' roller, pragmatist and technocrat...
...Liberals went into eclipse after the First World War, thanks to the capture of working-class votes by the party of trade unions. Labour's post- 1945 welfare state was in turn thumped in 1979 by Thatcherism, whose strong + defense policy discredited Labour's now defunct creed of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Today recession-racked Britons are unsure where to turn. They are listening more closely to the clipped, almost military-style speeches of a man who spent his formative years defending Malaya against communist guerrillas and newborn Kuwait against Iraqi claims in the 1960s...
...consider the first four letters in the title of Gladiator a "Rocky" wanna-be whose characters fail to provoke emotions as could Mr. Balboa or Apollo Creed, I ponder whether I am GLAD that I viewed this trash? No, I categorically declare. GLADness would have required obtaining a lobotomy along with my buttered popcorn upon entering the theater...