Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After war, Fairbank returned to Harvard to gather together a few ex-G.I.'s from the Pacific theater as students and make the small beginning in Asian regional studies. "Our motto was 'Quo Vadis,' Benjamin Schwartz, now professor of History and Government one of the ex-G.I.'s, says, "It was a risky venture. Before World War II the study of China was considered a risky enterprise. His (Fairbank's) hope at that time was that most of us would go into government." But instead they spread out to other universities, in fifteen years populating most...
Happily, he got his armorial bearings in Brest (and a motto to match: "Love, Work, Suffer"), though he made no headway in claiming the barony that is said to go with the name. It is fortunate, too, for the reader, that Kerouac lost his own bearings so often: amusingly drunken cafe brawls, busted suitcases tied up with neckties, lost planes, overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll...
...experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Hostess Gwen Cafritz purrs modestly: "With my little dinners I like to feel I am helping to save Western civilization." And Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had her motto for a lively party embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here...
...tight race. In less than two years, redhaired, blue-eyed Jack Gilligan, who never really stopped campaigning, has earned a reputation to match the motto on his placard: "The Congressman who gets things done." He opened a local office, started a newsletter-both innovations in the district -and even put out reports in Braille. He arranged free junkets to Washington for high school students and brought delegations of Washington officials to Cincinnati to discuss local problems with community leaders...
...Bangkok Post, has long sought one crowning jewel: a major London daily. The Times of London, a paper of rich tradition but modest circulation (286,000), has long needed one sterling resource: money. Last week the British press lord got together with the Establishment's most authoritative daily (motto: "For Top People") in a deal that brings new prestige to 72-year-old Thomson and fresh power to the 181 -year-old Times...