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...Governor's hot words brought only a feeble reply from the unionists that they would stick by the court decision. They might also have remembered Cal Coolidge's famed, succinct dictum: "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time...
...great American decision must be understood as a direct, unavoidable response to Soviet policy in Germany. From the first, this has been based on Lenin's terse but truthful dictum, 'Who controls Germany controls Europe...
Vishinsky's speech to French lawyers reported in TIME, May 27, recalls a critical dictum of St. Augustine which Americans might profitably keep in mind when evaluating our relationship with Soviets: "Distinguish between the trickery of words and the reality of things...
President Conant's dictum is that the foundation of good teaching is creative research. The yardstick of the ad hoe committee, whose recommendations for permanent tenure are almost tantamount to election, has been the amount of published research done by the individual instructor. In so many words, this means that an instructor must, before his alloted time runs out, spend most of his time and effort in somehow culling sufficient material for a book out of the big research libraries of the country. This effort is made necessarily at the expense of his tutoring, no matter how implicitly he might...
...production overflowing with exciting experiments, the most daring is its abandonment of realism as the medium of expression. Painted backdrops, liberal use of miniatures, and Disneyesque castles mark an important and significant departure from Hollywood's fantastic absorption with accuracy and detail. Applying to his sets the Aristotelian dictum that the function of the artist is to present the essence, rather than the particularity, of life-- which Shakespeare so wonderfully exemplifies in his use of dramatic poetry as a vehicle of expression-- Olivier reaches a level of perception into life that has seldom been equalled in motion pictures...