Word: preceptions
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...England. Belize is still British. Its traffic-bicycles, pushcarts, pedestrians and one or two right-hand-drive cars -bear Britannically left. In vacant lots small black boys play cricket. Inhabitants speak English with a very broad A. The British themselves do their best to carry on with the old precept of the "home away from home." After golf or tennis, they stop in at the club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash...
Youth for Christ rallies combine the tried & true methods of evangelism with a streamlined box-office appeal that stresses a good deal of amateur-nightish entertainment: Bible quiz shows, sleight-of-hand performers, ventriloquists, close-harmony quartets. The basic precept: "Remember that this is Youth for Christ, and plan your program with teen-age young people in mind...
...speaking, Editor Canham was following the precept of the Monitor's late great Editor Willis J. Abbot, who never seemed to mind that the Monitor then had 100,000 subscribers, and that the tabloids were on the way to 2,000,000. Abbot scorned the theory "that the editor should give the public what it wants. . . . There are many distinct publics with sharply divergent tastes. ... It is for the editor to choose [his public]. ... If he believes that there are more morons in the field than any other class and is indifferent to all save mass circulation, he will...
...border in Iran. Azerbaijan's knife-wearing Kurds and ebullient Armenians spill over into adjoining countries (see map). Its 700,000 Kurds have kin in Turkey and British-controlled Iraq. Its 65,000 Armenians identify themselves with Armenians in Turkey and in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would be a potent instrument of policy. Recently, in Azerbaijan, a pro-Russian Democratic Kurdish Party significantly burgeoned...
...first facet of this new policy related to colonial areas. For years, the U.S., remembering its own origins, has generally stood, sympathetically and vaguely, for the independence of all peoples. On the rare occasions when it had had to act, practice had not always followed precept. Last week in San Francisco, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the U.S. now preferred, in discussing the ultimate disposition of colonies or areas under trusteeship, the word "self-government" to the word "independence." The U.S. thus sided with Great Britain and France, against Russia and China, who had wanted UNCIO...