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Moral backing for any protest against the "No girls in the cheering section" dictum disappears with the application forms themselves, for every student when he signed one agreed to occupy personally the seat he bought. By the fourth game of the season everyone must have realized that the rule was there, enforced or not, and observation seems to show that only a small minority of the student body attempted to beat the game by swapping single tickets...
...tireless friend of Greece and U.S. Ambassador in Athens since 1944 stepped into one of the planes for a quick trip to Washington. Scholarly Lincoln MacVeagh had long ago traced on the flyleaf of his well-thumbed copy of Leninism, Joseph Stalin's treatise for revolutionaries, the dictum: "It is an essential task of a victorious revolution in one country to develop and support revolution in others." MacVeagh, who speaks ancient Greek with the fluency of a contemporary of Aristides, was not really surprised by anything he had seen in Greece...
Heaven & Boiled Fish. Lewis sees no good reason to accept the modern dictum that "scientific" explanations are more authoritative than theological ones: "The old atomic theory is in physics what Pantheism is in religion-the normal, instinctive guess of the human mind, not utterly wrong, but needing correction. Christian theology, and quantum physics, are both, by comparison with the first guess, hard, complex, dry and repellent. The first shock of the object's real nature, breaking in on our spontaneous dreams of what that object ought to be, always has these characteristics. You must not expect Shrödinger...
There is the Florence of Leo X, the Medici pope, who ruled in hedonist splendor, true to his dictum: "Let us enjoy the Papacy, now that God has given it to us." That Florence is preserved in the proud perfection of the city's stones...
...title, there is little talk of poetry and prose). His confidence in his own impressions of art falls little short of the exaltation reached by Gertrude, but it is based on a lifetime of attention to art and artists and a healthy struggle to apply Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Clear your mind of cant." Whatever else is true of the U.S. expatriate company of which the Steins were members, they learned a good deal about the pleasures of looking at things, inciuding things on canvas...