Word: precept
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Their job, as he sees it, is to relate population control to the "Love Thy Neighbor" precept by showing people that "they aren't doing their neighbors a favor by cluttering up the earth...
According to legend, this stern precept had its origin in 1755, when an earthquake leveled seven chimneys in Braintree, Mass., and so impressed 20-year-old John Adams that he ran to describe it for posterity. Historians now will have to find a different reason for the avalanche of Adams diaries. Last week an earlier diary of the clan patriarch-immediately dubbed "John Adams' Lost Diary"-was unveiled by Harvard University, publisher of the Massachusetts Historical Society's projected 100-volume Adams Papers...
TIME is probing and analyzing the issues of the day with even greater intensity now, with the addition of our new Essay section. Yet we have by no means abandoned the TIME-honored precept that much of the news is made by people or is best told through people...
...term springs from the widespread use of the cept at Princeton University, which boasts of the small, conversational classes that it calls "precepts." The cept is jokingly defined as "half a concept"-meaning that it is more than a fact but less than a philosophy, more than an epigram but less than an axiom, more than a thesis but less than a synthesis. The Princeton student has it made if he can spot these prized nuggets in rapid reading or sporadic attendance at lectures, spin them out glibly during a precept and, above all, weave them dazzlingly into an exam...
...religious precept that one's Judaism depends upon whether one's mother is a Jew is of such fundamental import that its violation would be shocking to the essence and being of the Jewish religion. RABBI CHAIM COHEN Brooklyn...