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Everyone Is President. The Dada movement of the late 'teens and '203 suited his mood perfectly. Part of its creed, Ernst recalls, was that "everyone who declares to be a Dada isn't; and everyone who is a Dada is president of the movement." But what began as a serious if wild attempt to break new ground tended to deteriorate into mere sensationalism, and Ernst moved on to surrealism. Though he formally broke with the movement in 1938 in protest against the highhandedness of its self-appointed leader, Poet Andre Breton, he has remained a surrealist...
...never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I've sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, for every race, color and creed," he said...
...argued that in virtually every session of the state legislature since 1923, bills to amend or repeal the 1879 law have been introduced and all have failed. Therefore, contended Cannon, the law "represents the will of the people." That was a way of saying that Connecticut politicians of whatever creed cringe before the presumed power of the Roman Catholic Church, which counts 1.138,600 adherents (45.2% of the state's population ) and campaigns openly in favor of retaining the law-even though it takes no law whatever not to practice birth control. But in Connecticut as elsewhere, many Catholics...
Several agencies have been established to assist graduate students in finding homes. For example, through PBH Harvard offers the student a list of apartments whose landlords have signed a pledge promising "not to refuse to rent to any student of Harvard University and Radcliffe College because of race, creed, color, or national origin." MIT has a similar listing, as does the International Student Association...
Another myth, set forth in the creed, is the idea that Christ "ascended into Heaven." Pike asks "Where? We no longer believe in a three-level universe: a flat earth, Hell below and Heaven above . . . And as for 'sitteth on the right hand of the Father,' I simply remind you that in certain Oriental areas of the Church the phrase is 'on the left hand of the Father,' since in their cultures the latter is the place of honor...