Word: preception
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement that took shape in the mind of Le Corbusier in the early 1920s-and that sought to identify the vast and varied contents of modern architecture with its own arid mannerism-has reached a climax of formal purity and functional inadequacy. Whereas modern architecture began with the true precept that form follows function . . . this new office building is based on the theory that . . . function should be sacrificed to form...
After the bill passed, La Nation, the country's last surviving major independent newspaper, once again took its life in its hands to denounce the Peron regime for violating "the categoric constitutional precept which prohibits Parliament from passing laws which restrict the freedom of the press...
...first precept for dealing with patients: be nice to them...
...week's developments got somewhat hazier. As one witness explained, "There's no law against double-talk." Rosenbaum, blandly talking of his and Young's financial maneuverings, declared that he had been following no less an authority than Federal Judge Learned Hand by obeying the precept: "Every citizen has a duty to minimize his taxes...
...social innovator and appealer to the masses. A staunch wartime ally of Franklin Roosevelt, he still likes to say: "I am the best friend the United States ever had in Latin America." A resourceful foe of Communism. A longtime dictator who announced after his election: "This is the fundamental precept of democracy-the people elect and the elected man governs." An opportunist and master politician, the most skillful on the Latin American scene, supremely aware of the meaning of political power and how to use it, perhaps realistic and experienced enough now to refrain from abusing...