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...detail and every chit of paper involving the artist is of equal value; his Portrait is loaded with pointless details about Picasso's living arrangements, his day-to-day existence and his favorite cafés. But the dull stretches are offset by Picasso's remembered obiter dicta. Samples...
Sixteen minutes later, however, three cab drivers were munching catchupted scramblings in blissful ignorance of legislative dicta. The college men had left disconsolately sharing one unsugared doughnut...
Stillman infirmary, which reported no cases of heat prostration, and a sight of the Charles River bank yesterday afternoon, showed that the College was instinctively responding to the scientific dicta of Emmons...
President Truman made crystal clear last week his devotion to a budget policy which might not please practical politicians, but would be applauded by practical fiscal experts. His dicta: no tax reductions for two years; strict economy in Government spending...
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