Word: precept
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...Emperor Tiberius with renewed youth, burned at the stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept; at one point, in the Pasadena performance, laughter, concerted and solo, continues on the stage for four successive minutes...
...horror of their parents-but here is the chief point, 'they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code, from 'the letter which killeth to the spirit which giveth life.' It is recognizing that the only way to come at the truth of these matters is through free discussion of them. It, too, is experimenting...
...There is, however, another side to the question. Mencken has got imitators. Why, Mencken himself has to combat that very problem in men writing for the the Mercury, who believe in the precept that imitation is sincerest flattery...
Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, spoke, last week, for the ear of Benito Mussolini while addressing a gathering of priests: "All forms of society should be founded on the divine precept. Man is not and never can be a means, he is the end-not of course the ultimate, supreme end which is God-but in the creation, man is really the end and centre about which everything is organized. Therefore neither the concepts of race nor those of the State or nation should supersede that...
There were those who said that they were too ingratiating. There was perhaps a feeling that the players were too flagrantly depending on their unquestionably charming precocity. It is dangerous to shatter too indiscriminately the precept that children, no matter how engaging, should be seen and not heard. The Garrick Gaieties this summer is just a bit sure of itself...