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Hewing to the journalistic dictum to "sell every piece twice," Mark Shields has perfected the art of recycling his own sound bites.
The likes of Erich Korngold ( The Adventures of Robin Hood , Anthony Adverse ) and Bernard Herrmann ( Citizen Kane , Psycho ) never stopped pressing their noses to the windows of the concert hall, bitter at the unwritten dictum, "No movie hacks need apply."
It would be a waste of time to go through the editions noting the differences: in most cases, the editors followed the wise dictum, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it,” so little has been done to the basic information in the original edition.
Arrow's second dictum is that there should be no flip-flops.
But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.