Word: preception
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans, was disturbed by the widespread reports that Premier Adnan Menderes was about to order his army into Iraq in the days immediately following the Baghdad revolt. Following the precept laid down by Ataturk, Inonu believes that it must be a cardinal principle of Turkish policy never to interfere in the affairs of the onetime subject peoples of the Ottoman Empire. He warned that hostility to Iraq was "not in the interests of our country" and roundly condemned the government for publicly approving the U.S. and British landings in the Middle East. "The interventions...
Sanskrit & Papimento. Founder and household god of the language firm was Charles Berlitz' grandfather Maximilian (46 languages), who started his first school in 1878 in Providence, invented a teaching technique now referred to reverently as The Method. It consists chiefly of one precept: under no circumstances is anything but the language under study spoken in class. A corollary: for the first few lessons, all instruction is verbal-otherwise, Charles Berlitz explains, students tend to transpose pronunciation values in languages sharing the same alphabet...
...ending with some precept deep...
...religion.'' And of all religions. Christianity is most at home with it, for it was in the Christian West that it grew up. That does not mean that Christianity must be solely Western: its commitment is not to any society or institution, but to the simple precept of love of God and neighbor. The closer it stays, to that commitment, the more universal it becomes. At the same time, its very "travail through the western passes of modernity has qualified it, and requires it, to take a certain leadership in meeting the religious problems of the coming civilization...
...fundamental precept seems unassailable. As he says at length and somewhat abstrusely, the novel, especially the modern novel, characteristically deals with time and the complexities of inner motivation; the film, on the other hand, basically unequipped to render these effectively, finds its forte in rendering motion and action. Both its external quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back...