Word: edict
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...past, an increase in international tension was always accompanied by increases in editorial censorship. Just after Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Andrei Zhdanov issued his notorious edict subjecting Poet Anna Akhmatova and Writer Mikhail Zoshchenko to insulting criticism. Two years later Dmitri Shostakovich's music was denounced as unpatriotic...
...APPARENTLY Peretz--who often uses his magazine as a personal plaything, to settle scores and attack enemies--has appointed himself Defender of the Faith. He has taken it upon himself to issue an edict as to who is a real Jew and who is a pretender. What criteria he uses are obscure. (Even Israel would consider Bachrach to be a Jew.) Peretz never tells us why he believes that Bachrach is a) not Jewish and b) has pretended to be Jewish. And why he thinks his theological views should be relevant in a Congressional election is equally unclear...
...reserves three floors of rooms for abstainers, the Las Vegas Hilton one floor, with two more planned for later this year. Last month Denver's popular Cafe Giovanni banned puffing entirely in its dining room; so far only one group of patrons has walked out when informed of the edict. Tobacco devotees are finding the going tougher in more intimate settings as well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays in their homes anymore," moans Joyce Hernandez, a secretary in Montvale, N.J., who quit last year after attending a dinner party...
...self-made millionaire in real estate before he was 40, Berlusconi started buying Italian TV stations in 1978 and soon linked them into nationwide networks, with schedules heavily laced with game shows and U.S. movies and series. Though private TV networks are officially banned in Italy, a government edict allowed Berlusconi's popular channels to continue...
With this edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life...