Word: mottoes
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...idea men, William Safire, Patrick Buchanan and Raymond Price. Nixon himself had read every previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and?surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon motto is "Forward Together," and Polk in 1845 chose compromise and unity as his basic themes. He deplored "sectional jealousies and heartburnings," entreating the competing factions of his day to "remember that they are members of the same political family, having a common destiny...
...Sleep of Reason, Eliot seems motivated largely by Snow's need to have him in a particular place at a particular moment in order to function as a fictional forward observer. It is an excessively willful way to construct fiction, but perfectly in keeping with the motto on Lord Snow's coat of arms: Aut inveniam viam aut faciam-"I shall either find a way or make...
...same obsessive passions Melville imputed to Captain Ahab, who was a first-class tracker by any detective's standards: "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." Adopting a godlike motto ("We Never Sleep") the Pinkertons did not so much solve cases as play Puritan avenging angels in private duels with the devil...
...Fritz was turnip-shaped and unprepossessing. But guiding the Konzern from 1887 to 1902, he built Krupp into a world industrial power that sold arms to countries from Chile to China and reaped rewards in ducats, guilders, guldens, livres, maravedis, pounds, schillings and rubles. The unofficial motto of the firm became Wenn Deutschland bluht, bluht Krupp (When Germany flourishes, Krupp flourishes...
...Gaulle government's past policies of creating prosperity by holding down wages and skimping on social needs. In addition, France has long suffered from the tendency of many of its people to distrust their own currency, to put profit above patriotism and to have as their motto "In gold we trust." The crisis of the franc is basically a crisis of national confidence. Too many Frenchmen have been buying bullion and foreign money and transferring their savings to foreign countries in hopes of eluding an increase in taxes and a decrease in the franc's value...