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While a deeply religious Catholic, Keyes maintains that his notions of justice and human rights are not restricted to the Judeo-Christian creed...
...black students are halted at the entrance of the Club 100, a Cambridge social club, and asked by the owner to present "membership cards." Twenty-one days of student picketing and protest later, the owner signs a 126-word statement asserting that "race, creed of color" will not keep patrons out of the club...
Plainness ran deeper than taste. It sometimes grew out of religious conviction--formal severity was built into the Puritan creed, for instance. But it also sprang from the social necessities of American life: the need to make and mend things for oneself, to fit and adapt to local materials. And it acquired a political dimension as metaphor...
...therein lies the self-medicator's quintessentially American creed: I can do it better. As usual, the boomers lead the way; 35-to-54-year-olds, Troup reports, consume more vitamins and supplements than any other group. From Flintstones vitamins to marijuana to echinacea. Back to the garden, indeed...
...question such a view. I do not begin every conversation with a prestatement of my creed of beliefs on the environment, civil rights, and economic policy...