Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sample dicta...
...Whole; 3) that man can achieve such union only by ruthlessly eliminating all human desires and illusions of a separate self, letting the divine element work and grow within him. But self-improvement faddists looking for a 15-minute-a-day course to "happiness" need not apply. Sample Huxley dicta...
...These dicta helped win for their author a $1,000 prize offered by the Atlantic Monthly for an article on freedom of the press. Victor over nearly 700 competitors, mostly working newsmen, the author is Robert Lasch, 37, Rhodes Scholar and Nieman Fellow, now one of four editorial writers for Marshall Field's left-wing Chicago Sun. Like most modern social critics, Writer Lasch virtually absolves "the people" of moral responsibility for social ills, assigns that responsibility almost exclusively to the leaders. At times his essay suggests a private's-eye view of the generals. But every experienced...
Their book is less a handbook than a lively, disorderly, hair-splitting collection of obiter dicta. In an agile linguistic commando raid Authors Graves & Hodge survey the terrain of English prose and map its modern contours. Armed with 25 "principles of clear statement" they blast at 54 recent writers...
MILTON AVEUGLE DICTA NT 'LE PARADIS PERDU' A SES FILLES. Jim finally located Niobe in the 42nd Street Library copying Munkacsy's painting of Milton in his blindness dictating to his daughters. She got away. Next time Niobe turned up was at memorial cervices for Bloodgood H. Cutter, "the Long Island Farmer Poet." As Mrs. Bertha K. Hollings of Butte, Mont., she said a few words in honor of Cutter's memory, ran away when Jim chased her. Soon afterward she emerged as "Miss Sanderson," evangelist for the Society for the Preservation of Happiness...