Word: precept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience," he says. As for his own role, he adds: "all one can hope to do is move things in the direction they ought to go. I try to be specific about the ideal and not worry too much about what at the moment is realistic." By following that precept, Milton Friedman has done much to revive faith in the competitive market and to change the theories by which nations guide their commercial destinies...
...dawning of Chavez's social awareness came in a seamy San Jose, Calif., barrio called Sal Si Puedes ?"Get out if you can." Through Fred Ross, a tall, quiet organizer for Saul Alinsky's Community Service Organization, Cesar began to act on Alinsky's precept that concerted action is the only means through which the poor can gain political and economic power. Chavez, a Roman Catholic, has delved deeply into the papal social encyclicals, especially Rerum Novarum and Quadra-gesimo Anno.* "What Cesar wanted to reform was the way he was treated as a man," recalls his brother Richard...
Still, the label that in one sense best suits Nabokov's practice and precept as a writer is art for art's sake...
...need not have bothered. In recent weeks, Billy Graham has come on like a White House chaplain-in-residence. Perhaps following the Pauline precept-becoming all things to all men that he might by all means save some-Graham returned to the White House as the Johnsons' guest the weekend before L.B.J. left office. He reappeared at Nixon's inauguration to deliver a prayer that sounded more like a sermon-and was not overly kind to his earlier host at the White House. After all, Graham had urged Nixon to make the race in 1968, and had been...
When pinned down, none of the radicals and their sympathizers will admit that the nation, in the presence of ruthless enemies, can afford to disband its armed forces. But the question of who is to man the armed forces is left unanswered. The traditional precept of a broad-based citizen soldier army, with the dangers and sacrifices of military duty shared equally by all able-bodied men, is conveniently forgotten. There is no hue and cry to make the draft law fair and equitable or to provide an acceptable substitute for ROTC, if needed a substitute can be found...