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These movies embody the lure and liberation of irresponsibility. Their makers know that evil, as a dramatic subject, is no more compelling than the moral ambiguities -- the career fears and emotional compromises -- that rule most people's lives, but it is more photogenic. Here is the new creed: movies are pictures of stuff happening. And the uglier the stuff, the more, well, cinematic the result. Naked aggression is sexy. I shout in your face. I spit in your face. I blow off your face. I blow up your family. I blow up the city. So many films today want...
...Harvard students, don't miss any opportunities to condemn Harvard as an institution in instances when Harvard policy is geared toward the interests of the adherents to one particular creed. Yet, interestingly enough, the scheduling of the U.C. elections indicated that even when we the students are in charge, we perform the same degree of neutrality that Harvard University is plagued by. But that is beside the point...
...more grateful than they are. Abe Lincoln, the patriarch of their party, did not, according to his law partner of 22 years, believe in a personal God, and refused to join a church, stating "When you show me a church based on the Golden Rule as its only creed, then I will unite with it." Ulysses S. Grant, another Republican, exhorted his countrymen to "Keep the church and state forever separate" and strongly opposed the use of any public money to support parochial schools -- as proposed in the 1992 Republican platform...
Unfortunately, the creed of amateurism ill fit a world in which competition was being democratized, the popularity of sport was burgeoning, and standards of competition were rising. Nonetheless, the rules were followed strictly, even vindictively, and never more so than in the case of Jim Thorpe, U.S. winner of both the decathlon and the now discontinued pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. The following year, it was discovered that Thorpe had received $25 a week to play baseball during the summers of 1909 and '10 -- a common practice for college athletes, many of whom used aliases. Thorpe was stripped...
...creed resisted reform for as long as it did largely because of Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to '72. An American self-made millionaire and Olympian -- he had placed sixth in the 1912 pentathlon behind Thorpe -- Brundage had convictions that were nothing short of religious. "The Olympic movement today," he thundered, "is a revolt against 20th century materialism -- a devotion to the cause and not the reward...