Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voting Is an Honor. The last time the Vietnamese had a national election, in 1961, the voters had a notable personality before them: President Ngo Dinh Diem. This time there were neither notable personalities nor concrete issues. Some 530 candidates were running for 108 places in an assembly that will write the country's new constitution, and it will be several days before all the winners are known. But in any case, there were, as Saigon analysts noted, no George Washingtons or Magsaysays among them. They were not running for a legislature. They represented no political parties. They stood...
...hustings with his wife-favored no candidates but devoted all its energies to beating the drums for a turnout. Up and down Viet Nam, provincial drama teams mixed dragon dances with information skits and election slogans spreading the word. Sample slogan: "Voting is an honor of a citizen in an independent country." On TV, announcers folded the ballot, and dropped it into a box. Caravans of sound trucks rolled through smaller towns, and Radio Viet Nam belted out songs with lyrics like, "If we want to win the war, we must go to vote." As campaign lyrics...
...most states, payment is made only after disciplinary action has been taken against the guilty attorney. The clients' security fund, says Chairman Williams, is "a debt of honor and part of our responsibility to the public. Our success has been excellent. The public response and feeling of those who have been reimbursed has been very, very warm." Still, being lawyers, the men running the funds have hedged their bounty with "certain basic principles" in fine print. ''Negligent acts or conduct" by lawyers, for example, rate nothing from the funds and, cautiously adds the A.B.A. committee, "payment...
...death, his teachings seem to have been accepted as the state religion by the Persian Emperor Artaxerxes. Although the faith was driven underground after Persia's conquest by Alexander the Great, Zoroastrian ideas circulated widely in the Middle East. Almost certainly the magi who came to Bethlehem to honor the newborn Jesus were Zoroastrians, and many scholars believe that echoes of Zoroastrian theology can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Revived by the Sassanid dynasty during the 3rd century A.D., Zoroastrianism died out once again when Persia was conquered by the Moslem caliphs 400 years later. Rather than...
When it came to exalting personal honor, behavior and character in the face of depressing surroundings, Mama Levenson had one surefire blunderbuss in her arsenal. She fought dirt because of its corrupting influence not only on floors and walls ("Her fight against dirt was based on the premise that circumstances make poor, but people make dirt") but on human moral fiber as well. Mama and Papa both believed, furthermore, that children should be disciplined with whatever was handy-shaving strops, wooden ladles, rolled-up newspapers-instead of psychology. Writes Levenson: "I didn't know that fathers were not supposed...