Word: preception
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from darkness to light are, at this point, more of a problem to the white man than are the jungle savages. Seeing for the first time the glitter of the white man's world, stirred by his literature (the Bible, Rousseau, Jefferson) but stunned by the gap between precept and practice, often shunned because of their color, impulsive and impatient, they are likely to become the dupes of Communism. Writing from South Africa recently, Michael Ardizzone, a British journalist, reported a conversation with his Negro office messenger-a grown man named Cigarette, who had managed to pass his Junior...
...imperialism and German neo-Naziism, against the resurgence of Japanese trading combines or France's slowness in rearming." This "is a deadly challenge to the free world." Can it be met? Yes, said Eisenhower, for the West can defend itself by "unity and faith." "Unity is no simple precept. It is a complex and exacting principle ... It demands-on all fronts and in all senses-the sternest watch against divisive propaganda ... It demands a true cleansing from our hearts of the faintest stains of racial or religious prejudice. There is no such thing as just a little bigotry, just...
...Louis Bouyer, 35, and Bernard Cagne, 28, are ordained members of the Mission de Paris; like 85 other French "worker priests" (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), they live and work with their flocks, do not always reveal themselves as priests, seek to convert by example as well as by precept. Bouyer earns his daily bread as a production hand in the Hispano Suiza plant; Cagne in the Simca auto factory. Sometimes, say critics of the worker-priest scheme, it is the priests, not their fellow workers who get converted...
...they don't, the companies move circumspectly, and in most cases with surprising skill. To bring the Persian Gulf from the era of Mohammed to the age of Stratocruisers is in many respects as difficult a task as Lenin set himself to. It must be done by precept and persuasion, with no secret police to compel obedience. As a piece of social engineering, this job, being attempted by capitalists who abhor the word revolution, bears comparison with the Russian Revolution...
...There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature," Antonio Gaudi used to say. "Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners." In the application of his precept, Catalan Architect Gaudi built some of the most fantastic structures in the world. The walls of a Gaudi designed apartment house rise like eroded cliffs; his roofs are undulating, and wrought-iron leaves bristle from his eaves and sills...