Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Burke said she feels that coed living is important because it lets "a guy talk to a girl casually--without going out on a date." Miss Wigger said her motto was "work hard, play hard." She added that "now guys can understand more why we're here. A lot of guys have found out that girls are absolutely normal...
...central moral of all these struggles is that the whole point of a university is, by a not very odd coincidence, summed up in the motto of our University: Veritas. The trouble is that no one quite knows what truth is, but we do know some of the things that are necessary if we are to search for it. One of these things is that the searcher must be unprejudiced and well-informed; another is that he must feel secure in expressing his opinions no matter what the opinions of anybody else or even everybody else. One main purpose...
...idea men, William Safire, Patrick Buchanan and Raymond Price. Nixon himself had read every previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and?surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon motto is "Forward Together," and Polk in 1845 chose compromise and unity as his basic themes. He deplored "sectional jealousies and heartburnings," entreating the competing factions of his day to "remember that they are members of the same political family, having a common destiny...
...Sleep of Reason, Eliot seems motivated largely by Snow's need to have him in a particular place at a particular moment in order to function as a fictional forward observer. It is an excessively willful way to construct fiction, but perfectly in keeping with the motto on Lord Snow's coat of arms: Aut inveniam viam aut faciam-"I shall either find a way or make...
...same obsessive passions Melville imputed to Captain Ahab, who was a first-class tracker by any detective's standards: "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." Adopting a godlike motto ("We Never Sleep") the Pinkertons did not so much solve cases as play Puritan avenging angels in private duels with the devil...