Word: dictum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dallas. Life is unfair. Kennedy was talking about citizens' military obligations, about the restive Army reservists who were being held on active duty even after the Berlin crisis had subsided. Now Jimmy Carter has brought up the unfairness doctrine to explain his policy on abortion. Somehow the dictum comes out this time with a mean-spirited edge, like something from the lips of Dickens' Mr. Podsnap...
Marriage of Convenience. During World War I, Cole worked for an American relief group in Paris, where he met Linda Lee Thomas, a sophisticated, beautiful-and equally rich-American divorcee. They married in 1919; thereafter, the Porters embodied the '20s dictum, "Living well is the best revenge." They discovered the Riviera before anyone else, kept houses in Paris, California, Massachusetts-and an apartment on the 41st floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan...
...fidget, don't whisper, don't stare intently at furniture, pictures and other objects." For the loquacious, he counsels "don't tell old stories, jokes and anecdotes"-and for the insecure, "don't be disappointed if you think you are being ignored." One dictum might be intended for KGB operatives doing cover duty in the diplomatic corps: On visits to others' homes, the diplomat "should not enter the room without knocking...
...indulge in just one more sexist moment? This happened, not to me, but to my roommate. My roommate believes that, no matter what happens in the presence of a beautiful woman, there is always one dictum to be followed: Thou Shalt Never Lose Thine Cool...
...insincere and alien world, and remember, all grins must be grim. There shall be no deviation in our long march to universal self-fulfillment. All lips shall remain pursed, if you please. All humor will be in the service of social realism, and all laughter, determined by economic dictum: the will of the people is to harness laughter in order to further the will of the people. Put on your chin-straps, please. Begin laughing...