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...majority also took an obiter dictum potshot at the celebrated argument of Ohio's Senator John Bricker that the Constitution leaves doubt whether treaties can supersede constitutional rights, hence .needs the so-called Bricker Amendment establishing constitutional supremacy. Said Black: "This court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty...
...staffers who keep its hundreds of news printers thumping out 60 words a minute, in 45 languages, around the clock. Their copy must be crisply written to escape the editor's spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman and the candelabra...
...facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing Mozart with the perfect framework for his music." One possible explanation is that a better poet than Da Ponte might have been less willing to bow to Mozart's stern dictum: "In an opera the poetry must be altogether the obedient daughter of the music." It is the usual fate of the librettist to be forgotten in favor of the composer, but Da Ponte deserves to be remembered-not only because of his skillful service to Mozart, but because...
Strijdom's ostensible policy of "separate but equal" holds no water. Educational facilities are not equal; the disparity is obvious. Even if they were, however, Chief Justice Warren's dictum of May 1954, that "separate facilities are inherently unequal," applies even more to South Africa than it does to the American South. While Strijdom's right hand extends the ostensible goal of improved and racial interdependency, his left hand increasingly forces African blacks into a cultural and economic grave...
...direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting that quietly reaffirms Mies's famed dictum that "less is more...