Word: creedes
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Likewise, building community which spreads across the lines of creed that used to function as our most impermeable cultural boundaries requires a willingness to live our beliefs together--not to put them aside, or to sequester them from each other. The month of December, for instance, which bristles with various meanings and observances for our respective religious traditions, is a richer time at Harvard, now, not a poorer one, because our beliefs and rituals have met each other here candidly, sometimes uneasily, not without tension, but in their respective integrities...
...these outbreaks of irrationalism? Because in a highly technological age, where not just production but now information and thought itself are being mechanized, the need for escape is powerful. The world is too much with us. William Wordsworth yearned "to be a pagan, suckled in a creed outworn." We're not immune. Indeed, an age in which we carry around 6-lb. boxes that can digitize information and rationalize thought at 133 MHz is an age even more susceptible to the call of the wild...
Theroux speculates that as the Mediterranean's cities have grown larger physically, they have become smaller-minded and monoglot. Alexandria, as novelist Lawrence Durrell put it, was once home to "five races, five languages, a dozen creeds." Now it is a dull port of Arabic-speaking Arabs bound by one creed, Islam. Theroux finds the same dreary uniformity in other cities: "It was hard to imagine a black general named Othello living in Venice now," despite all the Senegalese selling trinkets near the Grand Canal...
While it might be unfortunate that Sega is not as popular across Harvard as it is across Yale, Harvard's athletic creed has not been diminished recently. No matter what anyone says...
...about the pageant's politics: in 1945 the naming of the first Jewish Miss America, Bess Myerson; in 1979 the dumping of Bert Parks, the show's emcee for 25 years; in 1984 the dethroning of Vanessa Williams, the first winner of color, after sexually provocative photos surfaced. Race, creed, age, all have clouded the show. But like the winner at the moment of coronation--brandishing a mile-wide smile as she sobs on the edge of both the runway and hysteria--the pageant proves that pretty can be messy. It serves as a kitsch microcosm of a conflicted country...