Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoppe's greatest coup has been his discovery of "the perfect solution to absolutely everything" (which is also the title of a 1968 book of his best columns). His cure-all is "total birth control - it will solve all our problems in a single generation." His motto: "Think of the Generation Yet Unborn-Let's Keep Them That Way." The trouble now, argues Hoppe, is that "we all worry about the population explosion -but we don't worry about it at the right time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills...
...whimsical drawing of a pregnant woman that her acquaintances saw so often in the past. Nor does she send many more of her humorous telegrams and letters, even if her friends do. Her favorite valentine this year was Robert McNamara's?a picture of himself encircled with the motto: "You'll find me under 'Lovers' in the Yellow Pages...
Warts and All. Hemingway's motto was "l faut (d'abord) durer" (One must, above all, endure). He was relaxed, fulfilled, only when writing well or when life's hostilities were out in the open-during war. "Having a wonderful time!" he wrote friends after his baptism of fire as a World War I ambulance driver. As a correspondent in World War II, he reiterated: "I love combat." Baker suggests that Hemingway's "esthetic of pleasure and pride" in "killing cleanly" may have been applied to war as well as the hunt...
...Fred Willard), a photographer who dropped out of life completely after he discovered that his successful career as a photographer continued to flourish even after he started taking pictures of (literally) shit. The two are married in a wedding ceremony conducted by the reverend of the First Existential Church (Motto: "Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"), who defines honor to the bride as "not cutting (your husband's balls...
...because "every piece of paper is a reminder of the work the papyrophobe cannot do"). Other signs of the syndrome include Cachinatory Inertia, "the habit of telling jokes instead of getting on with business," as well as Side-Issue Specialization, a commonplace substitute for competence characterized by the motto: "Look after the molehills and the mountains will look after themselves...