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...explanation: "The Boston Catholic laity are in leading strings to the clergy, and are impotent. In an excess of goodness, docility, almost infantilism, they respond to every dictum of the clergy. . . . They have no leaders, no official voice, no public opinion as a group, no forum for frank discussion...
...Truman's side there was the common-sense dictum that, whatever difficulties UNO may face, the way to begin is to begin...
Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...
...President Truman may, if he likes, regard the car as a personal gift. There is no law covering U.S. citizens' gifts to a President. A constitutional dictum bans the President from accepting gifts from kings, princes or foreign states, but he may accept such gifts for the nation, enjoy their use while he remains President...
...home, there was an easing of tensions and restrictions. For a while the U.S. people could luxuriate in the old dictum that the customer is almost always right...