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Compulsory Spinach. Says Lyttleton of the Latin-or-Greek requirement, which he hopes to upset at the next meeting of the Cambridge Senate: "It's ridiculous. It reminds me of the Victorian dictum, 'It doesn't matter what you teach a boy, as long as he doesn't like it.' " As a boy, Lyttleton did not like Latin, flunked his Cambridge entrance exam the first time, barely squeaked into the university on his second...
...intellectuals cannot forget Khrushchev's dictum: "The question of whether he is free or not does not exist for any artist who faithfully serves his people..." Official criticism of Pasternak is still bitter, despite adverse world opinion, and the hope of another thaw...
...dictum that "there are no second acts in American lives" was true at least of the man who wrote it, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The dazzled darling of the champagne revels of the '20s woke to the hungover desolation of the '30s. He found his talent depleted, his nerves unstrung, his wife Zelda mad, and he faced a literary fate that to a writer can be worse than death-public and critical neglect. In 1937 Fitzgerald packed himself, like "a cracked plate," off to Hollywood, not to recoup his life but to repay his $40,000 debts. There, across...
...partly been to blame for doubts about his "leadership." Working mostly within the confines of his White House office and of the staff system to which he is dedicated, he has failed to translate and dramatize his achievements in a personal style. He has failed to follow one great dictum of vaudevillians and successful politicians: "Tell 'em what you're going to do. Do it. Then tell 'em about what you've done...
...many years ago, almost every man who achieved the $20,000-a-year bracket-or even $15,000-could join a country club and enjoy it. Today, country club managers quote J. P. Morgan's dictum on yachts: He who asks how much it costs cannot afford it. Country club dues and assessments are rising fast. In the past few years, dues doubled (to $350-$1,000 plus 20% federal tax) in some clubs; they went up as much as 120% in Detroit alone last year, almost 20% in Los Angeles in the past few months. The villain...