Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, carefully putting the matter in question form, Murray suggests that the .American system, including the American economy, is more than a material achievement to be held somewhat suspect from the spiritual point of view, but "a human good" and a limited "end-in-itself," recalling the 2nd century dictum of Irenaeus that "the material is susceptible of salvation...
...Puerto Rican clergy, the most serious handicap in enforcing their dictum was the secrecy of the confessional: How would any priest know which Catholics who appeared at the Communion rail had or had not confessed their vote...
...were sacred, then divine, then human, and then they were gone. This all took place between the creation of the Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret of the Sphinx, for he laid down the basic dictum of all sacral art-"to depict the hidden meaning of things, not their appearance." It is easy, but incorrect, says Malraux, to think of the Egyptian tombs "as country houses in the Hereafter and the mummies as denizens of a world of never-ending childhood, buried with their toys...
...sole end and purpose of all production," said Economist Adam Smith, is the consumer. Last week U.S. business, watching the consumer like a hopeful but apprehensive parent, might have varied Adam Smith's dictum to read that the U.S. consumer is the master key to what will happen to production-and how much will be sold-in the months ahead. What business saw was a consumer growing steadily more cautious about his purchases, but still buying at a rate that is helping to steady the economy...
...which led General Talensky to a reversal of Clausewitz's dictum ("War is a mere continuation of policy by other means"). Wrote Talensky: "The process of development of the technique of destroying peoples makes it impossible now to use weapons for the solution of political tasks . . . War as an instrument of policy is becoming outdated...