Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FORT DIX, N.J., where the Army stockade was a mess last year, Lieut. Colonel Arthur Friedman has launched dramatic reforms in line with his motto, "Firm but fair." To Friedman, a huge 240-pounder, his slogan means clean kitchens, well-trained guards and innovative programs for 446 inmates. Since he took charge 15 months ago, Friedman has started college-preparatory classes, given the inmates a real drug-therapy program complete with talks by ex-addicts, and allowed selected prisoners off-base privileges...
WITH this motto gracing last year's annual report, the Harvard Voluntary Defenders (HVD), founded in 1949 "to render free legal service to indigent persons accused of crime," have now moved into their 22nd year of operation. Although some critics may accuse HVD members of too much Raymond Burr and E. G. Marshall at any early age, the group's activities are generally considered a force for good in the Boston community...
...organization has a tightly coherent ideology which is a synthesis of social and spiritual principles. Its Sanskrit motto means, "Liberation for self-well-being of the world (or service to humanity')." Ananda Marga sees the universe as. One and the goal of all human life as the attainment of unity, emergence with the Universal Self. Ananda Marga calls for service not at some magical future moment when "selflessness" is attained, but at this very instant; and it stresses that the service itself is an integral part of the self-purification process...
...coffee cup, zips up his waterproof jacket and stands, listening briefly for the fickle north wind that whips cruelly across the gulf this time of year. Then he sighs: "Well, 1 guess it's time to feed my young'uns." Somehow his words sound like a motto for the offshore oilmen...
...motto, "Power perfected becomes grace," could have been invented to describe Tom McHale's novels about Irish and Italian Catholics in America. Humor is his forte-not satire but farce. No aberration is too grotesque to be included, no character too minor to be lampooned. McHale's comedy waves over chaos like luxuriant grass over a grave...