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...years ago Massachusetts passed a Fair Educational Practices Act to force schools to admit without regard to race, color, religion, creed, or national origin. Harvard, M.I.T., Williams, and Andover led the unsuccessful opposition...
...percentage of young gentlemen whose parents have substantial properties. There is in human nature an element that is drawn by the spirit of adventure, the lure of sacrifice and the attraction of secrecy. [The Communists] have replaced the fervor of old-fashioned religion with the fervor of their new creed...
Last week, at 64, Gene Howe was rounding out 50 years in the newspaper business with a four-day open house at the Globe and News's new million-dollar plant. Above the main entrance was his one-line journalistic creed: "A newspaper may be forgiven for lack of wisdom but never for lack of courage...
Crane's only esthetic creed was "honesty." He did much to release American fiction from the cocoon of euphemism and sentimentality. Technically, he was an Impressionist. Like Flaubert, Chekhov and James, he aimed for "the immediate sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with...
...Christianity, however, does not accept Freud's creed, that humans should satisfy their drives. It is unChristian to have intercourse outside of marriage. Couples who think 'this is love' even though they express their emotions through intercourse before they marry are really living at a distance from love...