Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay down. A fortuitous combination of actions by business, the public and the Administration, plus the happenstance of foreign affairs, changed the mood. The Administration launched a drive, at first greeted with great suspicion, to regain business confidence. It began paying attention to one of the lesser-known dicta of British Economist John Maynard Keynes, an intellectual godfather of the New Deal. The Keynes' dictum: "Short of going over to Communism, there is no possible means of curing unemployment except by restoring to employers a proper margin of profit...
...public life of belief in God." Black's footnote was virtually ignored in the public reporting of the decision; it was omitted even in the text as published by the inclusive New York Times. Had it been given half as much attention as Douglas' sweeping dicta, much of the confusion and controversy might have been avoided...
...problems of these relations. What discourages him most about American audiences is that "they allow themselves to be led, and then listen with only half an ear." while a significant minority has advanced beyond listening to music passively, the majority, has not. To this minority, and away from the "dicta" of concert management, Szigeti has turned. Although he wants to slow the pace of his adventures, he performs gladly for colleges, museums, and music groups. He will soon play the Beethoven concerto in Athens, and then serve as a judge at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
After a fortnight in communion with nature in the Outer Mongolian wilderness, Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas, 62, deplaned in Moscow with a knapsack full of obiter dicta. Noting that the Ulan Bator intelligentsia is "starved for contact with the West" and that "the Russians are doing a wonderful public relations job for themselves" there, the outspoken jurist urged a U.S. counter-push, starting with instant diplomatic recognition...
From Cochrane to Zorach. In their verbal war, both Kennedy and the bishops could draw deeply upon the obiter dicta of a Supreme Court that has carefully tried to serve the claims of two strong, and sometimes conflicting, principles. The first is the Jeffersonian "wall of separation between Church and State," the second, the modern-day belief that the "right" of all children to an education entitles any and all students to Government assistance on an equal basis...