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...Although it will contain a handful of civilians, its power will be even more negligible than it was before. Moreover, the Cabinet members would have to serve as individuals and not as representatives of the political party to which they belong-thus conforming to the M.F.A.'s arrogant dictum that it and it alone speaks for the people and the revolution...
...than one exists) the stylish version of each story, even though "it may have no apparent authority." And why not? As a class, authors may have no more spontaneous wit than plumbers or bank presidents. What they do have are literary friends (and enemies) who follow Santayana's dictum: "Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember...
With that revision of a famous dictum, London Times Pundit Bernard Levin summed up the mood of Britain last week.* On the Monday morning after the Common Market referendum, when the edge was off the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as well, Britons were reawakened to the fact that all of their old problems were still with them. Indeed, some had got worse...
...TIME'S issue on women went to press three years ago, corporations that held Government contracts were working desperately to meet a far-reaching new Labor Department dictum: under threat of contract cancellation, the companies had to draft goals and timetables showing that they would "take 'affirmative action' to remedy the underutilization of their female employees." Since then, the Government and various feminist organizations have filed hundreds of sex-discrimination suits against employers...
...roles, Baryshnikov fairly radiates daring. It has been suggested that he must believe in Laurence Olivier's dictum that nothing is really interesting onstage unless the performer is risking sudden death. It is a notion that amuses him: "It is not so important that the actor or dancer feel he is risking death as it is that the audience should feel he is." Much more important to Baryshnikov is the insistence that "the essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." In that sentence, one feels, he comes closer to the heart of his appeal than...