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...Zohra Lampert's subtle and knowledgeable performance, no one in the cast has enough substance even to be considered humanoid. And after the first reel, the vampires seem to have lost their bite. Perhaps they, like the viewer, should have been forewarned by James Thurber's celebrated dictum: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched...
...Court's Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg decision of last spring did not really mean what some courts seemed to think it meant-that the law required enough busing to achieve an equal racial balance in every school within a school district. Not so, said Burger, in an obiter dictum to a decision that substantiated a Winston-Salem, N.C., busing order. If federal and school officials would only read the opinion carefully, he pointed out, they would find the statement that "the constitutional command to desegregate schools does not mean that every school in every community must always reflect...
...consist mainly of prayers, spontaneous dialogues and hymns, punctuated by guitars, gongs, drumbeats and incense. In the candlelit worship room, the goat's head and the cross share equal prominence. Christ's enmity with Satan, say the Processeans, will eventually be overcome by Christ's own dictum to "love thine enemy." For Processeans, that eventuality is near at hand, for they believe in the imminent end of the world...
...North Carolina's Black Mountain school from 1951-56. Meter was obsolete, and form along with it, Olson declared. Instead, the poem could be given an organic structure: "The line comes from the breath, from the breathing of the man who writes, at the moment he writes." This dictum resulted in a whole generation of poets breathily crouching over their typewriters, using the space bar heavily to stop or start a line as a catch in the lungs might dictate. On the page, poetry so produced had an iconography of spattered phrases, nouns that hovered inches above a possible...
...tardiness-unpardonable. It is as if we had collectively accepted Alice's harried, harassed White Rabbit ("Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!") as our model. Perhaps the only social canon of Emily Post's that still has all but universal acceptance is her dictum: "You must not be late...