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...President had good reason to be happy with his performance. Should the Communists eventually agree to his proposals, he will have made the enormous stride of ending the killing in Viet Nam. Even if his plea is rejected, he will still get credit for trying to follow a Churchillian dictum: "To jaw-jaw is always better than...
...personal respects, as well as to insinuate longstanding feuds into his book. Yet the thin veil of fiction that he swirls so adeptly around the pale data of his life is disappointing. It will seem particularly so to those who fell for Myra Breckinridge's critical dictum that...
...Sacred Roman Rota, the ultimate court of appeals in marriage cases (it annulled only 182 marriages worldwide in 1969), sets the pattern that diocesan and regional tribunals are expected to follow. When in doubt, judges in all matrimonial courts are required to rule in accordance with the ancient church dictum in favorem matrimonii-in favor of the marriage bond. To ensure just that, the Vatican added in the 18th century a "Defender of the Bond" as a figure in every marriage trial, to argue -regardless of the facts of the case -that the marriage be found valid...
...example, Brody notes, only two of Freud's patients were over 45. "One wonders," he writes, "to what extent his limited experience with older patients is responsible for the dictum that psychoanalysis is not indicated with older people"-a position still maintained by some contemporary analysts...
...overdrawn caricature, the loutish blond fly-boy suddenly becomes a Hitlerian symbol who bombs American bases in a deal with the Germans and sells stocks in the war because it is good business. Here Nichols?like Heller?cannot let hell enough alone, and Engine Charlie's oft-quoted G.M. dictum is paraphrased "What's good enough for M-M Enterprises is good...