Word: creeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Square, the traffic is stopped periodically as semi trucks back delicately into narrow garage openings. There, they unload huge rolls of newsprint to feed The Times's hungry presses, which each year consume five million trees. Emblazoned in gold near the entrance on the inside lobby wall is the creed...
...interdenominational Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., probably the best U.S. Evangelical divinity school. Fuller once required faculty members to affirm that the Bible is "free from all error in the whole and in the part," notes Lindsell, who taught there for 17 years. But since 1972 the creed has read simply that the Bible is "the only infallible rule of faith and practice." That leaves Fuller well to the right among seminaries, but nevertheless Lindsell believes disaster looms...
...Public School 161 in Manhattan, three-fourths of the students are Hispanic. So the community school board decided to rechristen the school, which bore the name of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. As a three-term mayor, the "Little Flower" championed city dwellers of every race and creed. But no matter; he was Italian, not Hispanic. The board thereupon chose the name of Pedro Albizu Campos, who before his death in 1965 proved his "unselfish devotion," in the board's words, "to the cause of liberation of Puerto Rico from the yoke of American colonialism...
...Indianapolis to explain his recent statement that there was "nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained" in neighborhoods. Carter replied that he wholeheartedly supports open-housing laws that make it a crime to refuse to sell or rent a house or apartment on the grounds of race, color or creed. But he opposes Government programs "to inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration." Said he: "I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks...
...believes, is less concern for the abstraction of liberal ideology and a "renewal of respect for the concrete structures that give meaning to the life of the individual-family, church, neighborhood, ethnic group." Theoretically, at least, he believes that this should be possible "within the framework of the American creed, which has shown itself to be very probably the most flexible ideological framework in recent human history...