Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Museum staged its "Primary Structures" show, with Free Ride in its entry court. Minimal art was officially launched-and so was Tony Smith. As a movement, minimal art seemed out to prove to the hilt Architect Mies van der Rohe's dictum: less is more. Many of the objects were simply boxes, beams of steel or lines of bricks. Any figurative suggestions were banned. So was any sign of the craftsman's personal touch: whether large or small, the objects were commercially constructed, color was applied with a spray gun. The aim seemed to be to assault...
...ergistically-by monitoring them for signs of trouble, providing them with computer and research services and risking money on projects they might not undertake on their own. Diversification has obvious benefits for the conglomerates, buffering them against bad weather within a single industry. To Andrew Carnegie's dictum to "put all your eggs in one basket and watch them," Gulf & Western's Bluhdorn replies: "If you have all your eggs in one basket, then you're stuck with those eggs...
...elusive. But in the middle, Malle abruptly switches to a pictorial history of burglary as Belmondo goes through a repetitious series of tedious jobs of greater interest to criminals and cops than to ordinary citizens. The end is something else again: sympathetic character studies proving Nietzsche's dictum that the criminal is only a strong man made sick...
Hugh Scott, D.C.L., U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania. He successfully defied the Churchillian dictum, proving that a live politician may be a statesman...
...Ivan's Eden, the watchword is "affection training," as opposed to the old whip-and-fear method. It begins in the nursery, where attendants spend the day fondling the young animals, in keeping with Tors's dictum that "you cannot love without touching." The more dangerous species are stroked on their "affection zones" with long, sponge-tipped "petting sticks," which are gradually reduced in length until an attendant can, for instance, tickle the thorax of a tarantula with his fingers. In "secondary school," the animals are put through an obstacle course in preparation for such script demands...