Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chien-ying, a Long March veteran, who was abruptly trotted up to the No. 4 position in the Politburo and has been on hand at Henry Kissinger's visits. Out in the provinces, where Mao was trying to put civilians back into key party positions (following his dictum that "the gun must never be allowed to control the party"), Chou has compromised. The soldiers are under pressure to "modestly learn from the people," as one slogan puts it, but they have not been levered out of the party committees, where they still hold sway over the civilians...
...Letty Cottin Pogrebin (How to Make It in a Man's World). She roundly condemns "sex-stereotyped" toys, books, games and emotions (girls are "cuddled," boys "rough-housed") that reinforce "role rigidity" and inhibit "gender freedom." Pogrebin takes TV commercials particularly to task for imparting to children the dictum that ruggedness makes the man and prettiness the woman...
Last week, after 17 months on the FBI's Most Wanted list, Brown, 28, reappeared. The dramatic episode was a bitter elaboration on his mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry...
...Joliet, Ill., Robert DeMary, an inmate at Stateville Penitentiary, filed a suit in federal district court charging that prices in the prison store have risen unfettered by the President's dictum. DeMary asks that Warden John Twomey and Peter Bensinger, the state's director of corrections, each be held liable for $125,000 that prisoners have paid in unlawfully inflated prices...
...Zohra Lampert's subtle and knowledgeable performance, no one in the cast has enough substance even to be considered humanoid. And after the first reel, the vampires seem to have lost their bite. Perhaps they, like the viewer, should have been forewarned by James Thurber's celebrated dictum: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched...