Word: rubrics
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...suppose that Old Jack has a right to his own privacy, but certainly there are items under the rubric of "private life" that are essential fodder for a well-informed citizen. For instance, we will miss the scores of the Kennedy clan's touch football games. It will be a fruitless life indeed without the President's latest golf score. How can the man presume to tell little Caroline the facts of life and not release the transcript to his constituency...
...Episcopal Bishop of the California diocese, with full rubric and laying on of hands, had conferred on a Methodist minister-not Episcopal orders but episcopal orders. As a result, the Rev. George Hedley is still a Methodist, but he wears his Methodism with a difference. Frail-looking but sinewy, George Hedley, 60, is the well-beloved, brilliant father figure and campus character of California's small (700 students) Mills College for women. Born in China to British Methodist missionary parents, educated in England and the University of Southern California, he had served as director of the Pacific Coast Labor...
...rubric, 'Kneel when you light a fire,' with its implication that you are thereby engaging in an act of reverence...
Those who watch the stone-faced panjandrums of Communism elbowing for position atop Lenin's tomb on rubric days concluded last week that fast-rising, tough Nikita Khrushchev, 59, First Party Secretary since last March, is now No. 3 man. Khrushchev is a dogged bureaucrat who rose to power in a succession of nasty jobs-gauleiter of the unruly Ukraine and boss of the restless collective farmers...
...Such Fustian." Judge Hand went right to the point. The courts, he wrote, must find their way through Holmes's rubric "as they can." He suggested a guidepost: "In each case they [the courts] must ask whether the gravity of the 'evil,' discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger...