Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal that more than 2,000 foreign firms have registered headquarters in Vaduz. While it is a constitutional democracy, Liechtenstein virtually dispenses with politics. There are two parties, known as the Reds and the Blacks, but they are equally conservative and anti-Communist and even have the same stirring motto: Faith in God, Prince and Fatherland...
Frank Converse is a properly handsome Achillas, but he speaks poorly. Young and dashing James Ray, dressed in blue and gold, is just right for Apollodorus, the aesthetics-minded carpet dealer whose motto is "Art for Art's sake." Nicholas Martin tries hard to be the insipid Ptolemy; but it is ridiculous to cast a grown man as a ten-year-old brat--King he may be, Canute...
...Addressing a nostalgic reunion of alte Herren (old grads,) the Chancellor defended Germany's tradition of fraternities, which are widely accused of fostering authoritarianism. Though at 87 Adenauer has seen most if not all of his old fraternity classmates die, he is still a loyal member of Arminia* (motto: True! Free...
...York prayer decision stirred widespread alarm-not so much for what it said as for what people thought it said. Misled by headlines, many thought that the court had all but ordered an end to all ties between government and religion, even chaplains in the armed services and the motto "In God We Trust" on the currency. Such fears are, to be sure, given some substance by a small but militant fringe that insists upon a total erasure of all traces of religion in government. Last week, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union brought suit in a California state...
...letters of acceptance mailed in the spring of 1959 bore the post-mark "Our task is still to build." Originally the motto of the Program for Harvard College, it has since come to reflect the atmosphere of growth to which the Class of '63 has been exposed...