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...Implacable Struggle. On the atomic bomb, as on every other vital issue, Moscow is governed by Lenin's dictum: "Victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long, persistent, desperate life and death struggle: a struggle which requires persistence, discipline, firmness, inflexibility and concerted will power...
...they would help write good laws; he was not a man who wanted courts to invade the functions of legislation. Only last week he cracked out publicly against "judges today [who] attempt to be statesmen and interpret laws without guidance by the intent of those who enacted them." His dictum: "Law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still...
...possible explanation for the hesitancy arises from some poorly times and ill-advised remarks by the Association's Director, Dr. Guy Snavely. The day before the meeting opened, Dr. Snavely relieved himself of the dictum that "if we have Federal aid we must have Federal domination." To that deathless relic of States' rights, he added a classic of Algeriana: "Anyone with ambition enough can go to college." With its chief executive indelibly on record, the Association faced the unhappy dilemma either of repudiating its spokesman or failing to express its own majority opinion on a vital issue. The educators choose...
...submitted to the Assembly last week. It was part of a report by the U.N. Headquarters Commission on a permanent U.N. site, and was written by the French commission member, one of the world's most-touted architects, Le Corbusier.*The mind which produced the dictum-"An artist who paints a dog to look like a dog is himself a dog of the lowest kind"-came to several revolutionary conclusions about U.N.'s permanent home. Samples...
...mixup stems from the recently passed Ivy League eligibility requirements, which go only about halfway back from wartime relaxation to the old prewar dictum of "no freshmen on the varsity squad." The hitch comes in the ruling that all veteran first-year men will be permitted to play varsity ball, despite a general policy return to the "upperclassmen only" idea...