One new dictum: All skirts must be tango-able.
First, the coffee machine at The New Yorker is nowhere near as nice as the one at Dictum.
In one poem, "Dictum: For a Masque of Deluge," Noah, post-flood, finds he has his work cut out for him: At last the sigh of recession: the land Wells from the water; the beasts depart; the man Whose shocked speech must conjure a landscape As of some country where the dead years keep A circle of silence, a drying vista of ruin, Musters himself, rises . . .
We have been guilty of not following the wise advice of our elders who, as Prof Augustus Sarmiento did more than 30 years ago, advocated unity of the profession, and have instead embraced the 'one joint, one surgeon' dictum.
I can only say one simple dictum: The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
Over the past 10 years, drug companies have gradually moved from a "one planet, one price" dictum — or worse: they used to charge more in Kenya than in Britain — to acceptance of tiered pricing.
And why, one wonders, this dictum: a lady is always seated in the back of a car to the right of the gentleman.
She works in the fashion and beauty industry where, heeding one stylist's dictum to dress only in white, she makes herself, "a panther in snow", an exoticised "other".
It not only observes the Oscar Wilde dictum "One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art," it includes the more generous thought that one can be a work in progress and wear a work in progress.
Kennedy and Roberts joined the four liberals in the majority for Evenwel v. Abbott to affirm the 14th Amendment's dictum of "one person, one vote," while Alito and Thomas filed separate concurrences.
