Word: honorability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a glorious honor and thrill it is to be selected to join TIME'S brilliantly illustrious cover coterie [June 6]! Nancy and I are overjoyed-just as will be the rest of our tightly knit reportorial "family" abroad...
...glories of the Czars, a sculpted hymn to Russia's historic national interests. The only concession to the Communist era is a giant painting of Lenin in the antechamber. Inside the hall itself, huge chandeliers illumine white marble wall plaques celebrating the knights who won fame and honor in the Czarist army; shaped in stucco are Russian victories from the 15th to the 19th century. It was amid those trappings last week that the Soviet Union, in quest of another, far more difficult victory, assembled some 300 leaders of 75 Communist parties from around the world for the third postwar...
...with a percentage that hovered around the .345 mark, was bunched with three other players in a race for the batting leadership of the National League. In recognition of Jones' fearsome reputation at the plate, opposing pitchers recently walked him three times (twice intentionally) in one game, an honor rarely afforded anemic Met batters...
...simply looks into it with the sardonic eyes of a Brecht. The result is a play about war, heroism and patriotism colored in the mock-ironic hues of a generation that cannot believe in war, heroism and patriotism. In that light, valor may appear as cruelty and national honor as parochial vanity...
...most blatant appeal to the freeloader in Everyman occurs at Cavanagh's on West 23rd Street, where drinking is done on the honor system; waiters bring full whisky bottles and setups to the tables, and customers are expected to tot up their own bar bills. "If you tell us you only had one double bourbon we'll believe you," reads an ad for Cavanagh's, and Ellman says: "We want the customer to feel that he's putting one over on us, that he's got the edge...