Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FNLA, whose motto "self reliance" is reminiscent of the Chinese who train their 20,000-strong army in camps in Zaire, oppose the MPLA program poder popular because "within the context of our country, direct democracy is not possible." Holden Roberto has described his brand of socialism as neither right nor left, African above all--"If socialism is economic growth and a better life for the people, then I am a socialist" but denounces Neto's "Vandalistic socialism...
Writes Buchheim: "Attack so as not to be destroyed. 'Submit to the inevitable,' seems to be his motto." In truth, the Old Man's fatalism seems more than a bit ersatz. He never talks politics, but he openly derides the martial rhetoric of his Nazi superiors. The impression left is that if the stuff turned out by Jo seph Goebbels' propaganda ministry read more like Joseph Conrad, the Old Man would have more happily embraced the inevitable...
Ibsen also wrote Peer Gynt to lampoon Norwegian egoism, self-sufficiency (presented as the trolls' motto) and political character, and you can see why almost anyone would be content to glean what meaning he could from the play. But Director Peter Frisch, who seems to want to drive home every nuance, cut the script sufficiently, and Peer Gynt, which runs over three-and-a-half hours, emerges much longer than the dramatic interest warrants...
...home to a family that is supremely unprepared to receive him. But Rabe is talking not so much about the Vietnam War as about the cultural distortions that made America's involvement in the war seem right. His subjects are men whose lives leave no trace and women whose motto is. "We don't matter, only the kids"--generations of Americans negating themselves so that their posterity can do the same. Rabe is anything but subtle; nevertheless, his play is still powerful enough in the able hands of the Dunster House Drama Society to leave audiences weak-kneed...
...Crimson heavies did not take their poor performance last Saturday lightly. Their new motto is "DECISIVE!" And they are anxious to demonstrate their speed and skill, and decimate anyone this weekend. In their quest to beat Harvard, the Engineers could not have selected a more unfortunate racing date...