Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...required, argued Correspondent MacNeil, is some of "the arrogance" of past taskmasters who ran Congress with heavy hands. Jones suggested that there is perhaps no greater congressional need than to strengthen the leaders of each party within Congress and thus pin down responsibility. He cited Woodrow Wilson's dictum that "somebody must be trusted, in order that when things go wrong it may be quite plain who should be punished...
...body of experience and theory that culminated in the 19th and 20th centuries in the effective policies of Metternich, Bismarck, Adenauer and De Gaulle, four statesmen whom Kissinger admires. Metternich claimed that "it is freedom of action, not formal relations" that leads to successful diplomacy. Following that dictum, Kissinger and Nixon have reassessed U.S. relationships, abandoning some ties as out-of-date (Taiwan), remaking others that might inhibit freedom of action (Japan, Western Europe) and forging new ties with old enemies (Russia and China) to expand the field of play. Another dictum of Realpolitik holds that "interests are constant, alliances...
...lectures as the primary mode of learning, some so-called teachers convey distance from and disinterest in their courses and students. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote that to lecture is "to instruct insolently and dogmatically." If Harvard students call for more personal education, it is because they have found this dictum out for themselves...
...that in July 1955, with U.S. support. Diem barred reunification elections. This fact has apparently been overlooked (or willfully ignored) by many Americans, especially by those who loftily proclaim the God-given right of every people to determine their own destiny by means of the electoral process. Obviously the dictum did not apply in Viet Nam, where "Bad Guy" Ho might have...
...Christian Democrats' voters countered with their own list of 200 somewhat less prominent names from show business, sports and academe but with sometimes more imaginative advertising. One ad featured the son and grandson of Konrad Adenauer reminding voters of der Alte's 1957 dictum that the Social Democrats would be "Germany's ruin." Another pictured Sir Winston Churchill, of all people, flashing his famous V-for-victory sign and declaiming that "socialism is the philosophy of failure, the credo of ignorance and the confession of faith of the envious...