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...July Shearson/American Express offered about $3.60 higher than the base price, so Schulte knew he would have to go above that. Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca last week sent Robert S. Miller, executive vice president of finance, to New York City with a Spartan dictum. Said Miller: "He told me that if the bid was a penny too low or more than a dollar too high not to come home...
...they talk, workers show a strong resolve to avoid depending on any one job. Wilfred Morrison, 31, a former management trainee, has set up his own distributorship for hose and hose fittings. Says he: "No one will control my destiny again." Everyone seems determined to follow the hopeful dictum of a new sign in the lobby of one of the centers that says THERE IS LIFE AFTER BETHLEHEM. It replaced one that read STEEL IS BEAUTIFUL...
Founded in 1874, the paper dates its rise from 1924, when it was bought by a former police official, Matsutaro Shoriki. A business associate of the American press lord William Randolph Hearst, Shoriki echoed Hearst's populist impulses in his own dictum, "Do not trust experts because they know nothing of the masses...
Which, then, has more application to modern life, the people's phrases or the aristocrats'? Not aphorisms, says the proverb: "Fine words butter no parsnips." Not proverbs, insists Alfred North Whitehead's terse dictum: "Seek simplicity and distrust it." Still, both categories are noted not only for their concision but their consolation. Collectors of aphorisms may yet find support from the biblical proverb "Knowledge increaseth strength." As for the partisans of folk sayings, they can for once side with the fastidious William Wordsworth...
...performance); Dede's bisexual husband François (Tenor Peter Kazaras), who was formerly Junior's lover; Dinah's brother; her best friend Susie; an analyst; the family doctor and his wife; a funeral director; and, of course, Sam (Baritone Chester Ludgin). Balanchine's famous dictum that there are no mothers-in-law in ballet may not quite apply to opera, which is not mute, but the common sense behind it ought to be respected. A Quiet Place is too heavily populated, its relationships obscured by a wordy, awkward book that sinks whatever chance the opera...