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...attempt to use the army to purge dissident leaders, Mao has run into a major difficulty: the army, created by the Communist Party, is finding it unpalatably difficult to discipline or destroy its creator. In fact, there are signs that the army is badly split. For Mao, whose maxim is that "power grows from the barrel of a gun," that was bad news indeed. Many guns in the People's Liberation Army are now apparently turning in his direction...
...girls; his final version simplified the scene to what it had actually been, a studio pose. And though rendered in watercolor-a lesser medium than oil-The Bather is, if anything, finer than his youthful version of some 60 years before. It was the final proof of his lifetime maxim: "The simpler the lines and forms are, the more there is of beauty and strength...
...velt muz men mer yoytse zayn vi far Got aleyn, says the Yiddish proverb. "The world is more exacting than God himself." It is a maxim that runs like a black thread through the fabric of American Jewish literature-from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Saul Bellow's Herzog. In Meyer Meyer, Author Helen Hudson follows the pattern by providing a translation of her own. In the secular cities of the earth, grace is granted not to those who reach up to God, but to those who reach...
...loophole in Henry's law. "I will not take the oath," he announces gravely to Thomas Cromwell (Leo Mc-Kern), the leader of the King's pack of political jackals. "I will not tell you why I will not." Cromwell: "This silence is denial!" More: "The maxim of the law is, 'Silence gives consent.' " Cromwell: "Is that what the world construes?" More: "The world must construe according to its wits. The court must construe according...
Today people who save string or old clothes in attics are likely to run into psychologists who tell them that such hoarding is neurotic, or economists who prove it uneconomical, or architects who simply do not provide enough storage space for it. The new American maxim, Columbia University's John Kouwenhoven has suggested, should be: "Waste not, have not." This does not signify that waste has become accepted in the U.S.-on the contrary. It is only that its meaning has changed. Neither Cotton Mather nor Malthus nor Marx anticipated a society in which only 15% of the population...