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...creed of the gerontologists is not John Donne's imaginative challenge-"Death, thou shalt die" -but "Death, thou shalt wait." Advances in control of infectious diseases, public-health measures, daring surgery and painstaking rehabilitation have combined to lengthen the overall U.S. life expectancy (at birth) from 47 years in 1900 to 69 today. Since life expectancy mounts as the hazards of successive age ranges are passed, a U.S. woman of 65 nowadays still has an average of 15 years ahead, and a man has 13. This...
...basic to the American creed "that a society can only be religious if religion and the state are radically separated, and that the state can only be free if society is basically a religious society." The state can favor no one religious group, but at the same time it must "sponsor, protect and favor religious life in general." This unique arrangement is no guarantee of a religion deeper than the church membership figures. "But it is a foundation-both for a religious people and for a free political order. As such it is the greatest achievement of the American political...
...given News of the World a fond place in every second British home is a simple formula: deadpan reporting of crime, from adultery to zooerastry, in almost all the exhaustive (and libel-proof) detail of the court transcript. "We are not a sensational paper," says the paper's creed. " 'Sensation' means making a lot out of nothing. We give facts, simply present all the news." Thus, in columns rife with rape, the paper never descends to such pseudo-glamorous tabloid cliches as "voluptuous" or "comely" to describe a victim; it simply tells the reader in cold detail...
...American Express President Reed foreign travel is not only a business but a creed as well. Travel dollars, he preaches, build up foreign economies and cut taxes at home. U.S. tourists last year spent $100 overseas for every $36 that foreign nations received in aid from the U.S. Government. Reed contends that the spread can be increased still more through what he calls "Point Five-the economic power of the U.S. consumer directed to overseas nations through tourism." As a result, Reed is welcomed by foreign government officials as a genie who magically produces dollars-with a little effort...
...such trusting, non-violent resistance is half of Gandhi's creed, the other half is creative, practical service for immediate problems. In South Africa he set to work cleaning up the Indian community, founded a cooperative educational farm and instructed the Indians in sanitation. Later, when he was doing the same type of service in India, he washed the latrines before a meeting of independence leaders, and drily asked why they should "wait till the advent of swarai (self-rule) for the neccessary drain-cleaning...