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John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, a congenital skeptic and distinguished Oxford don whose obiter dicta have em braced such disparate subjects as the Profumo Affair, Lady Chatterley and the plagiarisms of a 17th century Polish poet, last week published his scholar's evaluation of the Warren Commission Report and its critics. A Latinist, an attorney by training and, for the last 15 years, warden of All Souls College-one of the most eminent posts in British academe-wartime Guardsman Sparrow, 61, concluded empirically that the Warren Report on the assassination must stand and that the "demonologists" who so often attack...
Haiti has not been treated kindly by its black voodoo gods - or by its dicta tor, Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...Pius X (who was proclaimed a saint in 1954) stunted Catholic intellectual development for a generation. Biblical experts were particularly suspect. For years Catholic exegetes were required to abide by the conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, set up at the beginning of the century; among its dicta was the ruling that Moses authored the Pentateuch-even though it contains an account of his death clearly penned centuries later. Not until Pius XII's 1943 encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu, were Catholic Biblicists able to study Scripture with the same freedom enjoyed by their Protestant counterparts...
...every quick complaint, there was a quiet and reasoned reminder that ever since Escobedo, police across the country have been opening their station rooms and doing their best to live up to the high standards of the court's dicta. Denver's Police Chief Harold Dill said that the decision was "nothing earthshaking. We generally follow that pattern anyway." Said Atlanta's Chief of Detectives Clinton Chafin: "We've been operating that way for some time now." Los Angeles' able and crusading Chief William Parker, who has often complained bitterly that the courts are hamstringing...
...Minister." In this nonevangelistic approach, ministers deal with student interests and problems that are mostly secular: sex, rebellion against authority, concern about jobs, the "meaninglessness" of life. Rather than hand down dicta from the pulpit, the clergymen try to help the students work out their own problems in their own way, without departing from the necessity of teaching that there are absolute rights and wrongs. Dealing with an undogmatic generation, some also see the merits of relativism. "You can't tell them what to do," says the Rev. Harwood Bartlett of Georgia Tech. Many campus ministers encourage students...