Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pioneer of building with reinforced concrete. Two years after meeting Léger, Le Corbusier turned out a slim, cocksure manifesto entitled Towards a New Architecture - as though he had decided to do away with all architecture that had gone before. The manifesto was as revolutionary as its basic dictum: "A house is a machine for living...
...praised the students' concern for social justice, but reminded them that "the ugliness of the radical" is no different from the "ugliness of the reactionary." Both share "the sin of arrogance," which is freedom's enemy. He concluded by revising Barry Goldwater's famous campaign dictum: "Intolerance in the name of freedom is no virtue; patience in the name of justice is no vice...
...domestic political issue; in the 1960 campaign, John Kennedy managed to get political mileage out of the hard-to-prove charge that during the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, U.S. prestige abroad had reached a new low. Americans still seem to agree with Woodrow Wilson's dictum that "opinion ultimately governs the world...
...petition was posted by Jean '67 in response to a dictum by the Radcliffe administration two weeks ago. Cliffies will no longer be permitted to sunbathe on the quad in suits or shirts tucked up to the midriff...
...psychiatrists, they are great believers in the Jimmy Walker dictum that no girl was ever ruined by a book, asserting, in effect, that no one is harmed by pornography who is not sick to begin with. The young, it is widely conceded, are more vulnerable, but no one has yet devised a practical way of keeping books from the young by law without also keeping them from adults-which would mean a return to the Cockburn rule...