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Faith and Hope. Already, there have been some disquieting signs that the Pope's dictum will be openly flouted. The Association of Washington priests, representing some 100 clerics in the archdiocese, formally endorsed the statement circulated by Father Curran...
...close friends and hardly ever appearing on the telly or the front pages. Now Wilson has suddenly re-emerged with force. First, he dealt decisively with his disintegrating Cabinet, warning right-wing dissidents two weeks ago to shape up by quoting Harry Truman's famous dictum, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Then he announced at a party rally that Britain, which has been having more than its share of economic difficulties, was now "on the way to an economic miracle." Many friends and foes alike thought that the statement...
Highway regulations, the priest points out, derive from the Fifth Commandment, "Thou shall not kill," and for the careless driver he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas' stern dictum on carelessness: "He who allows certain events to happen which result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass...
...true since the beginning of his film career. It was unheard of, for instance, to cut from the back of an actress' head to the back of the same head. Godard did it 18 times in Breathless. While making A Woman Is a Woman, he recalled a Chaplin dictum that comedy is life in long shot and tragedy life in closeup. So A Woman became a comedy in closeup. Cameras are supposed to record, not call attention to themselves. In My Life to Live, he had his camera swinging back and forth like a pendulum during one key sequence...
...neither Alabama's nor Mississippi's delegation is likely to submit to one national party dictum--a pledge to support the party's nominee. In Alabama, Johnson supporters have had to charter a new party in order to assure that the President's name--they have no doubt he will be re-nominated--will be on the ballot. The regular party will support former Gov. George Wallace...