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...briefing by Treasury Secretary Charles Shultz, who put the price freeze in perspective by comparing it to "shock treatment." Those who watched the President on CBS were spared such explication. The network went straight back to Sonny and Cher. Instant analysis annoys the White House when correspondents challenge presidential dicta. In this case, however, CBS simply ignored the Administration's own background information-a service to neither the President nor the public...
...this treatment, the servant's dicta are generally recognized as the dry-witted, earthy folk wisdom of vox populi. What is more interesting, and not generally recognized, is that the servant also speaks to these particular masters with vox Dei. The servant tries to warn the master that if he persists in his extravagant behavior, be it passion or madness, he affronts not only the social but the cosmic order, and will incur the vengeful wrath of the gods. The servant dare not speak too freely lest he be cuffed or dismissed. The master pulls his rank and fails...
Occasionally verbose but always articulate, John Knowles delivered himself of the following dicta in an interview with TIME'S Ruth Galvin...
...Gulf Oil stock. Clearly the thrust of the resolutions was that if any protest is to have long-term effect, it must strike at the roots of involvement: a general commitment to stability, free markets, and open access to raw materials in the Third World. These are the dicta of American imperialism-Vietnam is not as isolated aberration of American policy, but an extreme example of a general phenomenon...
Many of the new imagists too, have forgotten Pound's espousal of the "musical phrase" (v. the metronome) as the basis of rhythm. Instead they have largely adopted the dicta laid down by Charles Olson, who presided over North Carolina's Black Mountain school from 1951-56. Meter was obsolete, and form along with it, Olson declared. Instead, the poem could be given an organic structure: "The line comes from the breath, from the breathing of the man who writes, at the moment he writes." This dictum resulted in a whole generation of poets breathily crouching over their...