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...same is true of all four periods of activism ("creedal passion") in our history--the Revolutionary era, the Jacksonian period, the Progressive era and the 1960s and early 70s. "In sum, creedal passion periods involve intense efforts by large numbers of Americans to return to first principles," an "American creed" represented by vague and symbolic words like freedom, equality, justice, and individual rights, and marked by a pervasive "antipower ethic...
...1970s, a span lotted up and graphed more completely than any in our history. His contention that the 1960s closely resembled the other "creedal passion periods" in the degree of adherence to traditional American political values is not so much wrong as incomplete. Certainly, adherence to some "American creed," especially in the early years, is a current that runs through much of the writing from the New Left. Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the early 60s, wrote for example that "the things we are asking for in our civil rights process...
...have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary, the nation has not relinquished its basic view of work as sacred and worklessness as sin. Proof that the old creed persists lies in the self-chastising of the unemployed...
Neither does anyone else. The men at prayer are among 10,000 surviving Kakure Kirishitan (crypto-Christians)-members of a fossilized faith that is unique in church annals. The poignant tale of the sect begins in 1549, when Jesuit Missionary Francis Xavier brought Roman Catholicism to Japan. The new creed soon gathered 300,000 followers, including most of the inhabitants of Ikitsuki, but its success also spelled its doom. Fearing the Christians' growth and foreign links, the warlord ruler Hideyoshi and later shogun mounted terror campaigns in which tens of thousands perished, often gruesomely. Christianity was all but stamped...
...junior was the only racquetman extended to five games yesterday, as he abandoned the Harvard creed of patterns and placement to hold a bang session with Midshipman Tim Tinney and struggle...