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Montaigne's very motto-"What Do I Know?"-appeals to these inquiring times. His convictions have a contemporary ring. "How many condemna tions have I seen," he wrote, "more criminal than the crime!" He could ridicule pomp ("On the loftiest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our own rump"), pedants ("Won't they try to square the circle while perched on their wives?") and bigotry ("If she is a whore, must she also necessarily have bad breath?"). He had a psychiatrist's understanding of the mind: "Alas, poor man! You are miserable enough...
Apparently, every Wellesley class has a class color, and a class motto, and a class racing shell (for use on Tree Day, but that's another story), and a class tree, and a class flower, and probably a class ice cream flavor. Everyone at Wellesley is expected to know these things, and a girl would probably be put on pro if she didn't collapse with laughter at the mention of lemon juice or larch bark. All of which is a bit puzzling to an outsider...
Illinois has set up what it calls the Demonstrators Association to serve sev en medical schools, under the motto, "Let the dead teach the living." The association gets upwards of 200 bodies a year by bequest, and 300 from state institutions−still far short of the 1,200 that are needed by all the state's medical and dental schools and research hospitals. In New York, famed private schools Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Cornell University Medical College get many bodies by bequest, but like other schools they must still rely mainly...
From the international corridor, a U.S. 82nd Airborne major peered down into the rebel-held section of Santo Domingo. "Our motto," he said dryly, "is 'Out of the trenches by Christmas...
...market women who ride them and driven by tough freewheelers appropriately known as "maulers," are West Africa's principal means of travel. Usually ancient pickup trucks fitted out with wooden roofs and benches, they hide their precarious mechanical condition under garishly painted hoods. Their cabs often bear a motto full of hope ("God Never Sleeps"), African fatalism ("No Condition Is Permanent"), challenge ("Let Me Try Again"), or simple pious appeal ("Amen...