Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps, on the tenable theory that what they had in hand was a revival of O'Casey's play with occasional interpolated musical numbers, the producers engaged Melvyn Douglas and Shirley Booth to play Captain and Mrs. Boyle. Nothing in their performances compensates for their egregious violation of the rule that he who can't sing, shouldn't. Mr. Douglas at least does a good gruff job on what emerges as a thoroughly nasty character, but Miss Booth, in what should be a congenial role, seems almost uncomfortable; her famous infectious warm-heartedness is unaccountably missing, as well...
...Just Peace Through the Rule...
...massive retaliation and "brink of war." Last week, in a notable speech to the New York State Bar Association in Manhattan, Dulles made it clear that he is trying to steer U.S. policy toward the most positive and flexible peace-seeking goal known to civilized man: a world rule of law that substitutes "justice and law for force," leaves room for "peaceful change whereby justice is manifested." and provides for "a system of order based upon the replacement of force by community justice, reflecting moral...
...Often peace is identified with the imposition by strong nations of their 'benevolent' rule upon the weaker," said Dulles. "Most of these efforts collapsed in war . . . But the world of today is very different from the world of past centuries. It cannot be ruled. Hence the time is ripe for the rule...
...have from the very beginning of our history insisted that there is a rule of law which is above the rule of man. That concept we derived from our English forebears, but we played a part in its acceptance. As John Marshall put it, 'There are principles of abstract justice which the Creator of all things has impressed on the mind of his creature...