Word: mottoes
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When she died on Jan. 22, after years of failing health but at the remarkable age of 104, she left behind five children, 28 grandchildren--and a motto as legacy to all who mourned her passing: ``I know not age, nor weariness, nor defeat.'' The boast is testament to her ability to craft legend out of the exigencies of real life. Of course, Rose Kennedy knew age and weariness and defeat. Many times over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family...
Andy (James Duval), whose motto appears to be, "Life is shit," meets and is courted by Ian (Alan Boyce). Meanwhile, Steven (Gilbert Luna), an aspiring filmmaker, and his intense artist boyfriend, Deric (Lance May), spend their time avoiding the suspicious gaze of Deric's parents...
Virtually the only Fifth Avenue building without even a sprig of festoonery is Saint Patrick's Cathedral. But then Christmas in New York, as in most American cities, is less a religious feast than a mercantile festival, whose motto could be "Buy now, pray later." Many retailers rely on this season for fully half their sales and profits. Similarly, performing-arts organizations use holiday chestnuts like Amahl and the Night Visitors and Handel's Messiah as surefire crowd lures. The New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker plays to more than 100,000 people each...
...flipping of the third book and the truncation of Harvard's motto reflects a trend of rejecting religion, Hall said...
Harvard's motto once was "Veritas, Christo en Ecclesiae" (truth for Christ and the Church), and it appears as such in Sanders Theatre, Johnston Gate and the Freshman Union...