Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shocked Americans. Matters reached the explosive stage last week on the night before shooting was scheduled to begin. Police arrested Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys with a 900-year-old pedigree in Burke's Peerage (family motto: "Look Here for a Brave Spirit") on charges of trying to set fire to an outhouse near the dam. A wine importer, Christopher Knight, 23, was also hauled in, accused of trying to blow up the dam itself. On the same night, police also apprehended a car carrying two more young...
...hands of such writers as Saul Bellow-whose Herzog has his great moment at the end of the book when he manages to summon enough strength to tell his cleaning woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems to be, "Call me schlemiel." In more mundane life, there is much revulsion against the pose, if not the reality, of heroism. "Ya wanna be a hero?" is a mockery, not a compliment...
...others in Emmy Awards. This must not happen again. We must close the Emmy gap immediately. Therefore I have directed all vice presidents to turn their attention to this year's awards so that next year we can be up there on the podium getting ours. Remember the motto of this company: Neither be the first nor the last. Following are a few notes off the top of my head about last week's award program...
Girls circulated "Keep Edward" petitions: their motto was from Pliny the Elder: "If head residence can keep babies, why not cats?" One Cliffe pointed out that the mette is especially timely. "Babies are disgusting," she said. "Head residents should be encouraged to stop having babies and start keeping eats...
...Bache & Co. Inc., which stands second in size ($90 million gross) to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith ($227 million) among U.S.'s brokerage firms, desks are decorated with a motto of the house: "Learn to listen." The man that Bache's 5,000 employees are expected to listen to most intently is Chairman Harold L. Bache, 71, whose granduncle founded the firm 87 years ago. Last week, after Bache President Adrian C. ("Ace") Israel, 50, suddenly resigned because of "a basic disagreement over corporate policy," Wall Streeters were saying that the real reason was that Israel had found...