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...family business. He set out to be a painter, studying for a year with George Inness, rather than going to college. In the end he discovered that the arts and crafts movement founded by Britain's William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites was more to his taste; their creed was that everyday utensils and decoration should be formed and shaped by the same principles of beauty as any painting or sculpture. By the time he was 31, Tiffany had abandoned "pure" painting almost entirely to turn his talents to interior decoration and design, with a strong predilection...
...world that is much with John Paul back in Rome is that of the West, where new theologians question church doctrines, while churches and seminaries increasingly stand half empty. In Africa, though, Christianity is burgeoning faster than anywhere else in the world. It is a creed to be lived and enjoyed, not debated. On Sunday mornings, people will walk for miles to get to a Mass or a Protestant service. The streets in many villages become deserted; everyone is at church, having a good time...
...Church creed stresses world peace and unity through a "revolution of the heart," Duong Ha '81 said. Ha arrived in the U.S. as a Vietnamese boat person...
...examination of Anderson's record reveals a conservative with a conscience, but a conservative first and foremost. The Jeffersonian creed that "government that governs best governs least" remains the operative phrase in Anderson's political vision. Just put the money into the pockets of consumers and hence into the market system and the benefits will filter down to those in need. It is a traditional doctrine, Adam Smith filtered through 200 years, but what was liberal in 1776 is liberal no more...
...rational ideal had scarcely been erected before dismantling began. Schorske describes this process as both a siege and a mutiny. Disaffected peasants, artisans and Slavs, among others, began massing politically, demanding certainties and absolutes. Taking to the streets, they cared nothing for the hallowed liberal creed: "Wissen macht frei" (Knowledge makes us free). Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal saw what was happening: "Politics is magic. He who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow." All too soon Wissen macht frei was degraded into the cruelly deceptive slogan of Nazi death camps: Arbeit [work] macht frei...