Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Darwin had the same gift as the best impressionistic painters to capture a scene with a radiance that transcends time. His self-professed motto was "writing about sports in worth nothing without gusto." The effervescence of his narratives is most apparent in a stirring passage from an essay entitled "Crowd and Urgency." After a discussion of crowds in general, he writes...
...mask an aggressive and sometimes furious writer. Despite a distaste for self-revelation, White frequently boils over: he takes after fascists in the '40s, loyalty oaths in the '50s, school prayer in the '60s and commercialism in the '70s. But the author's unwritten motto is always Multum in parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires off a note to the publisher announcing that...
...full, the player with the most disks in his color is the winner. Compared with chess, for example, it all sounds quite simple and takes only 15 to 30 minutes a game. But the possible combinations and permutations make it more complex than it first appears, hence the motto: "A minute to learn . . . a lifetime to master...
Bloomfield's task is to create a king of mirror effect through which, for example, the town-bred Gwendolen and countrified Cecily seem merely of vanity and triviality. These are not, after all, three-dimensional characters; they are instead cardboard figures, albeit unusually witty ones, whose motto is "I speak, therefore...
...Brown-Beasley's eyes, he has a moral obligation to contest decisions that he believes are wasting Harvard's money, pushing the costs of education here higher. And Harvard--the school with the motto "Veritas"--should be especially receptive to open criticism, he believes. In a letter last month to Peter S. McKinney, acting dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brown-Beasley wrote: "Since there are no 'final solutions,' constant criticism from within is our only hope for progress. Those who 'cannot absorb constant criticism' might well be reminded of the admonition attributed to President 'Give...