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...classify himself politically. "I don't like people to label me liberal or conservative," he says. "I want to be all things to all men. That's St. Paul's phrase." The evangelist's ideologically balanced public statements make one aware that he is conscious of Paul's dictum. "I believe every word of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations," he says, but again "the Bible isn't a scientific document; it's written for the common people, in language they can understand." And again, "I disagree with some points in Tillch, though I respect his right to his opinion...
...seen on Perry Mason and The Defenders. They rarely touch criminal cases, personal-injury suits or domestic relations. Most of their work is done outside the courtroom, and some senior partners have never argued a case before a judge and jury-a testament to Elihu Root's dictum that "a lawyer's business is to keep his clients out of litigation...
...Corporation proclaims that, "Talent is our most important national resource," General Education is a less popular rallying point. Within a community of scholars, it is difficult to say that scholarship is not sufficient training for a citizen of a free country, or to remind the Faculty of Conant's dictum that a liberal education is not necessarily a general education. It is not always easy to remember that "non-departmental" and "General Education" are imperfect synonyms...
Hedy Lamarr, who used to fire up anyone who saw the whites of her eyes, once said: "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." The new generation ignores the dictum. They all want to act, or try to. Susan Kohner, Natalie Wood, Tippi Hedren, Carol Lynley, Jane Fonda,Ruta Lee, Christine Kaufmann, Joey Heatherton-all are aflame with Strasberg and Stanislavsky. But as bombshells they are squibs, containing the equivalent of about ¼ oz. of T.N.T...
...only have damaged his case, and that the prosecution did not call them because it did not wish to embarrass the Establishment. In general, serious observers fear that British courts are assuming, or are being forced to assume, too much authority as an arm of government, and recall the dictum of the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker, during the trial of scandal-mongering journalists after the Vassall spy case, that "the citizen's highest duty is to the state...