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...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...
...Mississippi, but it should have been no surprise. Once on the bench in a state where only 5% of adult Negroes are registered to vote, Judge Cox, 63, has consistently refused to find any pattern of discrimination. Moreover, he has filled trial transcripts in rights cases with gratuitous obiter dicta. At a hearing last March, he referred to a Negro voting registration drive as "grandstanding"; he repeatedly described 200 applicants as "a bunch of niggers" and called them "chimpapzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered to vote." Fit for Jail. The latest case to cast...
...based upon the shining faith of the first Christians and not upon Jesus himself, theologians should forget about seeking the earthly Jesus and analyze the formation of the kerygma. "We can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus," Bultmann wrote in one of the shaping dicta of modern theology...
...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...