Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loeb may have been responsible for having the slogan "Live free or die" put on New Hampshire license plates, but just for the record, it happens to be the motto of the state of New Hampshire...
...PLACE OF JUSTICE IS A HALLOWED PLACE. Not far from where that motto is displayed in the Justice Department's Washington headquarters, a new portrait was unveiled last week. The likeness was that of Richard Kleindienst, the first Attorney General ever to be convicted of a crime. A casualty of Watergate, he had pleaded guilty to testifying falsely before a U.S. Senate committee...
...humiliating demonstration of leftist power threatened to bring down the sixth revolutionary government in 18 months. With the motto "Discipline! Discipline!", Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo, a moderate, has been trying since he assumed office two months ago to restore government authority and military subordination to it, which had gradually collapsed during the previous five governments. So far he has had little success -and last week's surrender to the hardhats was a case in point...
...SAID of Lyndon Johnson that whenever he felt the urge to sacrifice a little political capital for the sake of principle, he would lie down until it passed. A generation of Texas Democratic leaders learned that policy at the knee of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texan whose favorite motto was "to get along, go along." That attitude helped make Rayburn the longest-tenured Speaker the House has ever had--he held the job for a total of 17 years--and probably the most influential politician in Texas history. Fourteen years after his death, Texas politics is still dominated...
...Emeritus Jacques Barzun, who collaborated with Trilling for 36 years in a course on cultural history, admired the way "his thoughts progressed in a rational manner from beginning to end." A student who took that Barzun-Trilling course remembers most vividly the moment when some unfortunate victim cited the motto of the Order of the Garter during a class on Malthus. Said Barzun: "Honi soil qui Malthus pense." Said Trilling: "Honi soil qui mal thus puns...