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...inconceivable, even with the most naive faith, to accept the fact that God sold out the black race until the year 1978. It's far easier to believe that the Mormon creed did just that...
...moral and political values expressed in Solzhenitsyn's Harvard address. I share many of his political judgments as well. My disagreements with him are mainly philosophical. Commitment to freedom and a humane society does not require acceptance of a religious faith or subscription to any theological or metaphysical creed. Morality is logically independent of religion. To be sure, a free society is one that cherishes religious freedom, but this embraces not only a right to believe but a right to disbelieve...
...cold Shavian in Undershaft would say that only illusion has deserted her. He has previously expressed his creed to Cusins: "Have you ever been in love with Poverty, like St. Francis? Have you ever been in love with Dirt, like St. Simeon? Have you ever been in love with disease and suffering, like our nurses and philanthropists? ... I have been a common man and a poor man; and it has no romance for me." At the arms plant, with disconcerting alacrity, Barbara and Cusins accept the Undershaft inheritance, saying they plan to "make...
More often than not, New York producers operate on an avaricious creed: if at first you do succeed, try it again and again. The current golden format is the confessional musical. It emerged as a shining triumph in A Chorus Line. Between dance numbers, each cast member explains why dancing became a kind of Holy Grail. In Runaways, the street urchins tell pathetic tales of the violent and loveless homes from which they fled...
...strike-breaking riots, negotiating sessions and Senate hearings cannot rise above. When we are forced to listen to Stallone for any extended period of time, we are reminded of how Adrian must have felt when she tried to hear what he was saying over the crowd noises after the Creed fight...