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...influence is pervasive nonetheless, for in differing degrees both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are operating on a national competitive ethic. The Soviets have always made competitive success a national goal. Witness the motto on their state seal: "To Catch Up and Surpass." In meeting the Soviet challenge the formerly isolationist United States have slowly moved toward a similar competitive orientation...
Jean Bodel, who wrote the play in about 1200 (in Medieval French, in octosyllabic lines, in rhymed couplets, in Arras, and, whenever he could afford the wine of his native Arras, in a state of intoxication) robbed the traditional Miracle Play of any seriousness it may have had. His motto was: Christianity can be Fun. He inverted the structure of the Miracle Play, placing the emphasis on the pagans and the thieves, giving the Christians at most a tenth of the lines. And before and after the beheading, torture, crucifixion, or any other horrific maltreatment of the Christian Crusaders, Bodel...
...acceptance speech, Dr. Scharf trod circumspectly between East and West, hoping for "peace with everyone." In view of "the many crises besetting the church," he said, he would aim "not to find dramatic solutions, but to progress bit by bit." And for his motto, he chose the lines from Romans 12:12: "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer...
...lively hope of better things to come in the economy, as exemplified by the stock market's frisky performance (see below). If wishing can make business better, Miami business leaders are sure they have just the thing. They have set up a campaign to promote optimism, taken the motto "BIBA" (for Business Is Better Already). Last week, to singing and bands, they publicly burned "Gloomy Gus" in effigy while the audience recited the BIBA pledge: "I will say the word, I will wear the badge, I will sing the song, and I will not pass bad news along...
...Methodists are now giving renewed attention to the kind of learning that Duke sums up in its motto, Eruditio et Religio. They feel that "church-owned colleges should be frankly conducted as instrumentalities of the church." The goal is a strong religious director for every campus, Christian-hued research by faculties, and-because the church expects its colleges to replace its missionaries abroad-many more foreign students. Says John Gross: "If Moscow's Friendship University is the world center for the study of Communism, then the centers for the study of the Judeo-Christian West should be the church...