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Last month, at the international music congress in Moscow, U.S. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin voiced a daring wish. "May we yet live to see the day," said Menuhin. "when every human being can dwell where his heart calls, whatever his creed." That is no more than is guaranteed under Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the Soviet Union is a signatory. But it is more than Moscow dares grant its citizens, and so not a word of Menuhin's speech was printed in the Soviet press...
...matter what his race, creed or financial status, the American male under 5 ft. 8 in.-the height of the average American man-is a victim of discrimination. That is the conclusion of a Cleveland sociologist who has begun a personal crusade against a seldom mentioned form of prejudice that, like racism and sexism, is well established in U.S. society: heightism...
...Coming up: Sweetback douche powder. Boasts Van Peebles: "You are looking at a black conglomerate." But he still considers himself first and foremost a film maker-and not necessarily for blacks only. "If films are good," he says, "the universality of the human experience will transcend the race and creed and crap frontiers...
...which America was founded. On the other hand is the fact that their father, Tom Berrigan, was a progressive and a labor leader, a rarity when set against his own background. And yet Tom Berrigan was so loyal a Catholic that his worldly inclinations could be reversed when his creed was at stake; in 1949, a gravediggers' strike hit the archdiocese of New York City, and Tom Berrigan appeared shovel in hand to help Cardinal Spellman break the strike...
...working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President should be fanatical enough about his almost evangelical creed to stake the good name of the University on its preservation was abhorrent. When Pusey made the Christian purity of the Church a cause cerebra, instead of acceding gracefully, in what Santayana would call the genteel tradition, he signed his death warrant as an effective president. Cries for his resignation were raised...