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Until then, there is a small danger that in their enthusiasm to borrow from alien traditions, Catholic and Protestant experimenters may pass each other in opposite directions. Recently, an Episcopal priest gleefully told Diekmann how his own church had taken to the new practice of genuflecting during the Creed and the consecration of the elements. Diekmann heaved a weary sigh: Catholicism is just at the point of discarding the genuflection altogether...
...axiomatic for Ethical Culture that a good deed is better than a bad creed. This week, when the New York Society for Ethical Culture-mother chapter of the nationwide American Ethical Union-celebrates its 90th anniversary, it can take credit for enough good deeds to honor spiritual institutions ten times as big. Over the years, members have been responsible for creating the N.A.A.C.P., the American Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, the Visiting Nurse Service, and the nation's first settlement house...
...wrong if you think that today's youth aren't conscious of an American tradition [April 22]. They are-and are rebelling against it more than any previous generation did because they are more aware of the difference between America's creed and its deed. Young people are sick of the hypocrisy, the double standard, the platitudes of American tradition. They sense acutely the absurdities of life, thus live it as one big "goof...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. 37, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, will speak on "Race, Creed, Color, and Sex" at 8 p.m. tonight in Burr...
Whatever their successes or failures at home, the generals have already proved universally bad news to the Communists. But not for ideological reasons; in Ghana, they despise Marxism only because it was the creed of the despised Nkrumah. The soldiers are not necessarily "conservatives." Nevertheless, they have all been eager to get on good terms with the West; in Ghana, the Central African Republic and Dahomey, they have sent home large delegations of Chinese and Russians...