Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great poems, Wallace Stevens speaks of "musing the obscure." That phrase seems to be the unspoken motto of the Swedish Academy. Last week it again passed over such notables as Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene and Saul Bellow to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Eugenic Montale, 79, an Italian poet virtually unknown to the public outside his native land...
Although only 25, Frisoli, son of former school Superintendent Frank J. Frisoli '35, has made a vigorous and visible showing in the campaign so far, leading some City Hall analysts to wonder whether he will be able to draw votes away from longtime incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci. His motto, "Restore Integrity in Cambridge Government," is, he claims, an appeal to the instincts of voters who feel that something is "seriously wrong with the city." How well he has read those instincts, though, is something that will emerge in the returns and not in the coining of slogans...
Already, there are signs that conventional banks and financial institutions are becoming more responsive to women's needs. For example, under the motto "Women Mean Business," the State National Bank of Maryland has opened a special women's branch in Bethesda, including a small nursery where mothers can leave their children while chatting with loan officers, and E.F. Hutton, a big Manhattan brokerage house, is conducting special seminars for women investors. All together, women seem to be making major strides in winning financial equality with men-but they still have a long...
That could almost serve as a motto of the Ford family's stay in the White House: when pomp threatens to overwhelm any proceeding, the Fords counter with their disarming lack of pretension. "I had never thought about being First Lady," says the President's wife. "So I decided-I'm just going to be Betty Bloomer Ford." She both has and hasn't, and that may be her chief charm and canniest success as First Lady. Not long ago, after the White House domestic staff had turned in for the night, Secretary of State Henry...
...remote, how quaint the well-behaved Irish rebellion of Charles Stewart Parnell seems today, with its motto, "Home Rule," and its hope of working out a decent compromise through the parliamentary system. Yet how much more remote, how much more quaint must appear the Great Love that brought down Parnell and his cause-the ten-year affair he conducted with Katharine O'Shea, another Irishman's wife...