Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard career choices filed into last week's ceremony, several graduate students stood outside. To most who attended, they handed a "Bio-Buck"--a facsimile of a dollar bill decorated by caricatures of three Harvard scientists known for their lucrative outside work. Surrounding the sketches was the bill's motto: "Hell, I'd clone my grandmother to make a buck...
...share these worries. But we do not endorse the solution recommended by the AAA, BSA and GSA. Our reasoning follows that of many civil rights activists, whose motto for much of the last century was drawn from the language of a Supreme Court case: "one-man, one-vote." We object to tampering with electoral democracy in order to aid one group or interest; we object to such tampering be it by whites in the Southern United States or New York City, or by minorities in something so insignificant as student government. When district lines were redrawn in the Mississippi Delta...
When London's kooky clothes ran low, Kamali began making her own. Years ahead of the fashion pack, Kamali designed hot pants in 1969, the first in the U.S. "I can make something to wear out of anything," is her motto, and true to it, in 1974 Kamali took a nylon parachute, rip cords and all, and produced the first fashionable jumpsuits. A couple of years later, Kamali, owner of a sleeping bag, realized she would no longer have time to go camping, once her favorite pastime. So she cut up the bag, fashioned a fiber-filled coat...
Give me your tired, your poor, your homebound masses yearning for a degree." So might read the motto of higher education in the 1980s. Telecourses have been broadcast before, but never on a national scale. This fall, in conjunction with the Public Broadcasting Service, 500 colleges will be offering up to nine courses for credit via 206 public television stations. They will reach thousands of students-full-time workers, housewives, handicapped adults or people who live as far as 400 miles from the college of their choice-who otherwise would not be able to "go" to college...
...record collection runs to albums of Guy Lombardo, John Wayne, Amos 'n 'Andy, as well as Strauss waltzes, movie sound tracks and martial anthologies. The Raleigh house is compact, and hugged by camellia bushes and Chinese holly. In the vestibule hangs a Helms coat of arms with a Latin motto, Cassis tutissima virtus, that Jesse and Dot have never bothered to translate. (It means "Virtue is the safest armor" and contains a Latin pun: cassis also means "helm.") There are not many books. Helms wants to take up reading mysteries?Dot tells him that intellectuals peruse them to relax...