Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which Martin rode to power. A demagogue succeeds only insofar as he is able to play upon people's fears a frustrations. since he is merely a response to their needs, it is impossible to portray him in isolation. Martin displays an understanding of this truth in the motto--"You name it, I've got it"--which he carried over from his peddling days into his political career. The director, however, seems to have ignored it, for his depiction of the backwoods people is ridden with Hollywood's hillbilly cliches...
Historian A. K. Moe credits a chance meeting with inspiring the motto...
Above the doorway of the big modern building in Santa Fe, N.Mex. is lettered an appropriate motto: "The art of the craftsman is a bond between the peoples of the world." The building is Santa Fe's new Museum of International Folk Art, and both museum and motto are the gift of a wealthy Chicago art patron named Florence Dibell Bartlett, who has spent 20 years collecting the folk art of 50 countries. On her travels, she noticed that most of the ancient crafts seemed to be dying out. Collector Bartlett decided to build the museum as a showcase...
...motto of the late Eva Peron...
Professor Waldo Sweet [TIME, July 20] is right in using the Berlitz method to make his students of Latin talk Latin: Loqui loquendo distilur (Talk is learned by talking) is the Berlitz motto...