Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historian's three volumes, covers the period between his subject's debacle in the 1962 California gubernatorial election and vindication by landslide in the presidential election of 1972. As in his first installment, Ambrose sets out the chronicle in meticulous detail, relying more heavily on facts than dicta to lead the reader's judgment. Fact: Nixon was so habitual a deceiver that in 1962, 48 hours after saying defeat would at least restore his family life, he left for the Bahamas without his wife and daughters. Fact: during 1968 he artfully cultivated Lyndon Johnson's goodwill for his own benefit...
...media have always been torn by two hallowed dicta. One instructed editors and producers to tell the nation what it wants to hear: if letter-turning is what captures the public's fancy, then the public deserves Vanna White every night...
...elsewhere. He has won considerable attention for his attacks on affirmative action, school busing and various black leaders. While he likes to ascribe the unconstrained viewpoint to unauthoritative authorities like Ramsey Clark, Sowell often attributes the constrained vision to masters like Oliver Wendell Holmes, who provides some splendid dicta. For example, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." And, "Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." And, "It is desirable that the burden of all should be equal, but it is still...
...often said of Lloyd Webber's musicals that the show is the star, and of Prince's stagings that the director is the star. Both dicta might apply to Phantom, which is opulently costumed, lushly scored, full of spectacular stage pictures and chockablock with pastiches of 19th century warhorse opera. But in the midst of all the mechanics there are 2 1/2 performances that achieve some emotional depth. Michael Crawford commands the stage as the Phantom, bringing complete conviction to such fantasies as a midair descent on a chariot of gilded cherubs and a boating trip on a subterranean lake...
...Board rulings, feminist protests and House Masters' dicta--the Harvard intramural athletics program has survived all three while flourishing into one of the student body's largest extracurricular activities. This year two out of every three undergraduates will participate in at least one intramural sport...