Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Argy-Bargy. Wilson's Labor Party is running on its record over the past 51 years, chiefly on the economic successes that saw Britain's balance of payments go from chronic deficits to healthy surpluses and that brought wage increases to millions. Where the Tory campaign motto looks ahead to A BETTER TOMORROW, Labor's takes pride in past accomplishments as well: NOW BRITAIN'S STRONG LET'S MAKE IT GREAT TO LIVE IN. While Tories stress the lawand-order theme, Laborites, convinced that the electorate is surfeited with crisis and contention, deliberately keep...
...past three years. Shell Oil Co. is in the process of moving about half its staff there from Manhattan. Other recent refugees from metropolitan New York include Occidental Chemical Co. and Cooper Industries, an engine and tool producer. At some point, Houston may want to adopt as its official motto: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...
...Open Theater demonstrated its traditional expertise at oldfangled script-drama with a superbly subtle production of Endgame. Chaikin himself counterpointed Beckett's black doomsplay with a singsong, smiling-Buddha portrayal of blind, crippled Hamm. Beckett's line, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," might have served as production motto...
...Vice President arrives, he can be indicted for crossing state lines to incite a riot?which would surely break out if Agnew came to visit. Another student movement would have the young boycott soft drinks for the duration of the war?"You've got a lot to live," the motto goes, "and Pepsi's got a lot to lose." When Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh addressed a delegation of 1,000 students on Capitol Hill, he said: "We can make this system responsive from within instead of trying to destroy it from without." The students reacted with a standing ovation...
Like Lightbulbs. That motto is typical of Robert Kaufman's pseudosociological scenario, which mistakes words for thoughts and bruises for incisions. ("You're not a woman," yells Harry at Jan. "You're just a guy with a hole in the middle!") When the hero finds a Mexican-American student reading a comic book, he encourages him to study a higher work of similar intent. Back comes a note. "I finish Bat/nan and because of what Mr. Bailey say I go to the library and read Don Quixote." Anyone who believes that those two opuses can be negotiated...