Word: preceptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCloskey said that the Supreme Court must fulfill three functions: "preceptor of political morality"; a "governing body," that is, an organization whose authority is accepted and whose laws are "feasible"; and protector of "the reason and rational continuity of our constitutional...
...Warren Court has performed as moral preceptor pretty well," McCloskey said. "When Warren's term began, the American constitutional house was in a surprisingly primitive state ... the Supreme Court under Warren has remodeled it extensively, and, I think, wisely. It has helped bring America, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century, and if we haven't quite made it, it's not the Court's fault...
There are two playwrights inside Paddy Chayefsky - one is a pixy and the other a preacher. When the pixy handles the pen, it can turn out a funny, wryly perceptive comedy like Marty. When the moral preceptor is in command, the result is likely to be a chalk-dusty lecture like The Passion of Josef D., with its dreary analysis of Stalin's rise to power. Chayefsky's latest work, The Latent Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing eye-catcher...
Ahah. Vell, zit iss zee creation ov Professor Heinrich Zultz, late preceptor ov Kulturblat in Bonn...
...other judges this year, besides Yannatos, were Mrs. Louise Vosgerchian, Preceptor in Music, and Wolfe Wolfinsohn, violin teacher at the Longy School of Music...