Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spare. The exhibit contains an autographed, first edition copy of The Common Law, the book which earned him a Law School professorship. A collection of lectures originally delivered at Boston's Lowell Institute in 1880. The Common Law is now a classic legal text which contains the famous dictum. "The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience...
...member of the Communist Party since 1927 and as a Politburo appointee, one of China's chief negotiators with Henry Kissinger, the rumpled, jowly Yeh has long been highly esteemed in both party and army circles. He has, however, always been a stalwart supporter of Mao's dictum that "the party commands the gun"; thus his appointment symbolized the reassertion of party authority over often independent-minded military leaders...
...games did not end till Sunday right after a staggering total of 30 commercial-crammed hours of gridiron TV. (Some of the commercials were ordered up by network-paid stage managers, who signaled game officials when they wanted a break in the action.) Burnishing the already well-polished dictum that more is better, the networks figured they were giving their viewers precisely what they wanted. Or were they? Football on the tube has traditionally been a big winner, but there are ominous signs that the saturation point may be just about at hand. CBS is already in pain over...
...specific problem is a continuing conflict between the party and the regular army. Since August the Chinese press has been pointedly repeating Mao's famous dictum that "the party commands the gun," again a sign that the reverse threatens to be the case. In more recent weeks the press has displayed a clear worry that the army's authority is too great. "The People's Liberation Army must subordinate itself to the centralized leadership of the party," People's Daily sternly editorialized earlier this month. "We must absolutely not permit the army to become an instrument...
...church that flatly forbids remarriage to anyone who has previously had a valid Christian marriage. Roman Catholicism still teaches that once consummated, a marriage between two baptized Christians is a sacrament: it creates an indissoluble bond breakable only by death. The church has taught that Jesus' dictum "What God has joined together, let not man put asunder" means that men not only should not, but cannot break that sacramental bond. In recent years, however, Catholic theologians, psychologists and scripture scholars have begun to question whether Jesus meant that marriage is in fact indissoluble or only that it should...