Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preserve the original intent of this, the last true bastion of fun at Harvard. Nothing short of House pride is at stake here. Those who do not will have to live with their sheepish unworthy selves for yet another year. We challenge you all to take to heart the motto of the Three-Time Champion Leverett House Raft Race Corps...
Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...
...notorious bank-robbing Younger brothers, who each served more than 20 years here after a badly planned bank job in Northfield, Minn. Coleman, the eldest, became prison librarian and printer's devil at the newspaper. In his second year Cole was named Mirror editor, and the paper's motto became -- and remains -- "It's never too late to mend...
...late '80s, the time has again come for a fresh cast of characters. This time their faces show the lines of age and experience because the new motto may well be MATURITY SELLS. In a new Eastern Air Lines ad, the happy vacationers cavorting on the beach are over 60. In the McDonald's commercial, the Lothario with an eye for the female customer is 75 if he's a day. And the lady who takes the Subaru for a joyride to the pulsing music of La Bamba must be pushing...
...language is in the mode of current foreign policy rhetoric. He uses the phrase "strategic survivability" to point to his belief that the nature of nuclear deterrent depends upon the characteristics--rather than the amount--of nuclear warheads. His thinking is slightly reminiscent of Reagan's "peace through strength" motto that asserts the need for an offensive system so powerful that it deters a first-strike attack. But the clear difference is that Bundy does not propose a widespread build-up, but rather "enough" on both sides so that neither nation can knock the other out in a single blow...