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...Right to Keep Fit, et al.), she urged readers to shun refined grains and packaged foods, eat organically grown fruits and vegetables, unprocessed cheese and fertilized eggs, and take large doses of vitamins as a chaser. She came under fire from scientific critics who often agreed with her nutritional dicta but felt she oversimplified the etiology and prevention of disease. The earthy, outspoken Davis was unfazed. "I'm a mother figure," she once said, "and many people hate their mothers as much as they love them." She attributed her own fatal illness to "junk food" consumed in earlier years...
...light at the end of the tunnel, which Westmoreland, Eisenhower and so many others finally admitted they could not see, is still a long way off. And the light will continue to be until Martin and the Nixon administration abandon their efforts to adhere to the rigid dicta of the fifties' anti-communism and the pocket-book interests of American corporations and military factions...
Nonetheless, it is clear that some powerful figures within the Chinese leadership are violating Chou's dicta. To some experts, the attack on Peach Mountain contains oblique, invidious references to Chou. They point out that the opera was sponsored by the Cultural Group of the State Council headed by the Premier. Yet even if Chou is not the "someone" who carefully concocted this "foul, poisonous weed"-as People's Daily nicely put it-the appearance of the denunciation at a time when he is trying to tone down the new movement suggests that some rather complex political maneuvers...
Beyond individuals, whole nations were condemned by Chanel dicta: "I don't like Italians. They're women dressed...
...invests the whole of the book with parallels, variations and ironic reversals of this legend is wondrously rich and subtle. For the reader, however, the pleasure of tracing all these connections has a price: care, patience and a knowledge of several previous volumes. One of X. Trapnel's dicta was: "Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them." A half-truth, but never truer than with Powell. · Christopher Porterfield