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...axiom that how a thing is said is often as important as what is said. TIME places great importance on how it says what it has to say, for the felicitous turn of a phrase can do much to add interest, to clarify, to emphasize, to make clear or to entertain. Some examples from this week's TIME...
...charm of Carnival! is real, sometimes synthetic. Sometimes the show expresses a circus world, sometimes it merely exploits it. Love, again, comes to seem more of a refrain than a reality, a happenstance that can make it peculiarly sweet in places but also quite mawkish in others. A famous axiom holds good in Carnival!: the audience's heart is most touched when least tugged...
...verdict touched off a jubilant demonstration outside the court and a night of carousing in Johannesburg's black quarters. Many a white man was relieved to discover that, however fanatically the legislature had backed the apartheid doctrine of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and apartheid's underlying axiom that white men are inherently superior to black men, South Africa's judges retained a dedication to law and the belief that all men are equal under...
...favorite scientist. Thirteen years ago, he blossomed before the world as the self-taught despot of Soviet biological science, proclaiming his fantastic dogma that Communists could change nature at will. Riding high, he terrorized his rivals, shipping to prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer of dogmas, since Nikita Khrushchev does not care much about that, but as a preacher...
...Feisal of Iraq ("Here was little me meeting this Arab prince!"). But it is suffused with his love for the law, that towering edifice which is "all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling." Frankfurter lays down the axiom that "the worst public servants are narrow-minded lawyers, and the best are broad-minded lawyers." He neglects to say who should make the determination. But readers may feel that at least one man would be cheerfully willing to try: Felix Frankfurter...