Word: motto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the whole nation had long had the sense that war was approaching, the country discarded its pre-war preoccupations slowly, regretfully, in the way that travelers across the plains were finally forced to throw away the lovely walnut bureau, the framed motto, the pictures of the graduating class, the heirlooms and excess baggage, when the going got tough. Some of the U.S. preoccupations in the week before war blotted them...
...basement studio, surrounded by his buxom torsos and his latest model, a Paris university graduate named Dina (see cut), white-bearded Maillol accepts his domestic difficulties with an octogenarian's philosophy. His crusty motto: "The harder the stone, the pleasanter the work, because you can strike with all your might...
When Werner Janssen formed his symphony last year, critics praised its smooth string playing (its motto: "Every man a Heifetz"), the variety of its music. But when the Janssen Symphony wangled eight dates on California's Standard Symphony Hour, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began to jitter. The Philharmonic, founded in 1919 by Copperman William Andrews Clark Jr., and nurtured until his death in 1934 by about $3,000,000 of his money, now depends on the public for support (deficit: $100,000 or more a year). The Philharmonic was afraid that Los Angeles could not support two symphonies...
...Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into...
...Music for the fun of it, with nobody listening," is the motto of the newest Yardling enterprise, an informal orchestra open to tooters and would be tooters, no matter how sweet or sour...