Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important ideas for me in the book was the dictum that every day the actor and director must ask himself why he is in the theatre; I examined my own motives (really for the first time) and began to see that the theatre ideally should be a place of giving to people (an audience) who can come to commune with each other in an emotionally active way, where the actor does something in place of, and yet for, the spectator...
...mood, and seem to be trying, in fact, to repel other women rather than attract them. Hundreds of young girls are learning karate, tossing oft furious statements about "male chauvinists," distributing threatening handouts ("Watch out! You may meet a real castrating female!"), and even citing with approval the dictum of the late revolutionary Frantz Fanon: An oppressed individual cannot feel liberated until he kills one of the oppressors. This is all borrowed, of course, from the fiery rhetoric of today's militant black and student movements, but a deep feminine resentment is there nevertheless. "In almost any woman...
...long way to demolish Carlyle's famous description of economics as "the dismal science." Asked by Editor Loeb to clarify a point during the discussions, Dr. Walter Heller, a former presidential adviser, smilingly replied: "I purposely left that a little vague. I was following the Alex Cairncross dictum. His first rule when making a forecast is: Give either a number or a date, but never both. His second rule is: Never underestimate the power of a platitude. His third rule is: When the President asks you a question, remember that he doesn't know the answer either...
Richard Milhous Nixon loves Spiro Theodore Agnew, warts and all. But why? With all his vituperative attacks on the Viet Nam Moratorium. Agnew has violated the President's Inauguration Day dictum to speak softly. He has incurred a bad press and shortened some congressional tempers. Certainly. But those who have been most offended are in the main liberals, who are down on the Administration anyway. As Republican National Committee Chairman Rogers Morton said: "I think he's helping us more than hurting...
Almost too frightened to choose a seat, I finally remembered Malcolm X's dictum and sat facing the door. They clustered around me and smiled. They were of three different worlds...