Word: preceptions
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...achieved a really distinguished design, ballet dancers hand it down for generations. Choreographers have often experimented with systems of notation (like musical notes) which would allow them to preserve their designs in writing. But, thus far, the preservation of great pieces of choreography has depended on word-of-mouth precept and bodily example passed on from dancer to dancer...
...Year-the world's outstanding example of the realist who makes his point, not by precept but by example, J. Stalin...
...thirty states have similar sweeping syndicalism acts on the books. In one of them the new crime of syndicalism is defined as "Any doctrine or precept advocating . . . unlawful acts of force . . . as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership . . . or effecting any political change." These laws are a menace to civil liberties because they do not fix the line between permissible and punishable utterances, and because, though they seem at first sight to apply to thoroughly seditious persons, they can easily be interpreted by juries in times of excitement of include peaceable advocates of industrial or political change...
With these not particularly original words, Franklin Roosevelt urged all U.S. voters to go to the polls this week in the first national election of World War II. Then he packed his bags and was off for Hyde Park to add example to precept. After some playful banter at his press conference, he allowed that his vote would not be cast for Ham Fish...
...Academic freedom, a "mumbo jumbo" that allows any educator "the privilege of uprooting all the true foundations of life." (Fordham follows Father Gannon's precept: "Students should be taught obedience to the constituted authority simply because it is the constituted authority. . . We do not expect to argue with a Fordham freshman. We expect them to do as they are told...