Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help being ambivalent. I don't think I've ever seen a large group of people so fully focused on the same vibration at the same time. Everyone fell wholly into the rhythm of the sermon, everyone had to reach out and possess each maxim as if it were a truth of infinite wisdom that had never been expressed before. An organic interchange of energy and enlightenment flamed up with every sentence, accelerating until all strength was spent. The polar opposite of a Harvard lecture...
...impulse." Consciousness-the rational-is presumed to be shallow and unconsciousness-the irrational-to be always interesting, often profound and usually true. Cooper's law: "Truth is an unspeakable madness." Sanity is snobbishly looked down upon as uptight and bourgeois. Never has William Blake's Romantic maxim been so believed: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...
...they are serving a higher law than the Selective Service Law-the law of morality. They might quote St. Thomas Aquinas. "Human law," he wrote, "does not bind a man in conscience, and if it conflicts with the higher law, human law should not be obeyed." That is a maxim followed by all who have broken the law as a matter of conscience, from Thoreau and Gandhi to Martin Luther King and the brothers Berrigan. The principle that a man's conscience takes precedence over the dictates of his government was reinforced at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, which...
...Justice delayed is justice denied," runs an old legal maxim. Former Nevada Judge Clifford Jones, 59, might be inclined to disagree. For him, it seems that the slower the law moves, the better. Having long since stepped down from the bench to serve a couple of terms as Nevada's Lieutenant Governor, "Big Juice," as he is known, now operates as a big-time gambler. This week, beating all the odds, he will celebrate the sixth anniversary of his indictment for perjury in the Bobby Baker payoff case. Baker, who was indicted along with Jones...
...past few weeks have provided Mr. Meany with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fulfill the promise of his past accomplishments and become the statesman that labor so desperately needs. Regrettably, he chose not to seize that opportunity, proving once again by his childlike performance the business maxim that a man should retire...