Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover his youth. As a Royal Air Force enlisted man, he started a bus service from his base to London that underpriced the R.A.F.'s own buses. When the bus line protested in court, the judge upheld Bloom with a declaration that has since become Bloom's motto: "It's no sin to make a profit...
...exponent of the limited hope he had performed great service, the best measure of which was that the Russians had vowed to destroy him and his office ever since last year when he moved U.N. troops into the chaotic Congo, thus preventing a Moscow-run regime. A favorite motto of his was a quotation from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; one should, he said...
...cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls up at 10:30 p.m. and expect them to understand The Republic." The only athletic endeavor is judo, "a thing of being concerned with your body and what it does." The judo squad calls itself the Transcendentalists, and its motto is: "It's not whether you can win or lose, but whether you can rise above the scene...
...cast Cassel as a sort of Don Juan in diapers. He plays the younger son in a cheery Charles Addams family that inhabits a large, sunny, 19th century cobweb littered with charming bits of bric-a-brac and squalling testimonials to the efficacy of the hero's family motto: "Fructify!" The family lives in a dream world all its own, posing for imaginary deathbed scenes of famous men. playing baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero's latest fructifications. For the first half-hour the dream world has its humors...
...center of this Vicksburg-on-Avon, Troilus himself was a Confederate lieutenant, and his faithless little old Cressida's motto seemed to be: More scarlet than thou, O'Hara. Pandarus oleoed between the lovers, with slicked-down hair and a Burgundy dressing gown, and made his last exit carrying a carpetbag. "As I worked on the play," explains Stratford Director Jack Landau, "it became clear to me that the division was not one country against another, one part of society against another. It's a culture divided against itself-in effect, a civil...