Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mobile Home with mad dog Joe Frasson at the wheel rattling by their VW at 110 mph? Or are they sportsmen and liberators, by their brave example, putting their drivers licenses on the line, trying to get us all out of the prisons we are in? Rousseau noted the motto over the Genoa jails--Libertas--with favor, believing that men who would trample on the rights of others could only know true liberty by forcibly being shown the error of their ways...
...Hitler's birthday in 1945 and liberating Hermann Goring's outsized trousers ("That's a lot of pants," O'Daniel crowed). His militant anti-Communism was honed by a postwar tour as military attache in Moscow and service in Korea, where he adopted the motto "Sharpen Your Bayonet." In 1954, he was asked by President Eisenhower to train the South Vietnamese army. Iron Mike became a forceful advocate of the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam, calling it "a test of our guts and our resilience...
...called pacifists "fascifists"; yet later he pleaded for clemency toward German war criminals. When half the Western world referred warmly to Joseph Stalin as "Uncle Joe," Orwell in 1946 produced his Swiftian satire Animal Farm, with its caricature of a U.S.S.R. where leaders are pigs and their motto is "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others...
Edward Bernays has written a letter to you (February 5) in which he presumes to offer advice to President Bok. One cannot question Mr. Bernays's credentials in the field of public relations: one can indeed question the dubiousness of that whole approach, especially for an institution whose motto is veritas. The exposed interoffice memorandum that called forth this officious communication was misguided and, to at least one faculty member, embarrassing. As it happens, I have been on personal terms with Mr. Bok's three presidential predecessors, and--though I have had less occasion to see him--I have found...
...Middle East peace unless Israel draws back essentially to its frontiers that existed before the 1967 Middle East war" (Washington Post, Jan. 29, 1975, p. A13). A Harvard government professor should be able to differentiate between what he desires reality to be versus what the reality is. Our motto "Veritas" indicates that he should only be concerned with the latter...