Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they might turn into an iconographical picnic: witness the orphrey-like cross on a heavy Dutch tapestry chasuble from 1570, depicting the children of Israel gathering manna (which floats, in white stylized roundels, from the sky), with Moses' bulrushes below, heraldic crests on both sides, and a motto that reads "We are bent, not broken by the waves...
...those who follow the "be prepared" motto, the week brought bad news. On Thursday, the Harvard Student Agencies' Board of Directors voted against the organization's sale of conditions in the Freshman Union...
Ackermann seems to have entered politics with the motto "carpe diem". When a political opportunity comes along, she grabs it. As she said, "I didn't think of going into politics until it happened." In this way she has progressed from member of the PTA, to School Committee, to City Council to mayor. Will she go on for higher office? "Of course I'm interested in something on the statewide level," she says. "It just depends what opens...
...Edgar's half of the thrust and parry, but knows how to get the most out of humor based on repetition "We'll say no more about this" he concludes several exchanges, and delivers the line at just the right time in each instance. Benedict plays a character whose motto is "eliminate, wipe out, carry on" in a manner suggesting a malicious version of Edmund Muskie...
Such conclusions would perhaps not be surprising from a group organized by a former leader of the House of Lords, a Roman Catholic convert and one of 24 knights companions of the Order of the Garter (motto: "Evil to him who evil thinks"). But Lord Longford is also a longtime socialist who helped design the British welfare state, a self-styled "fellow-traveling member of Women's Lib" and the first member of the House of Lords to speak in favor of legalizing private adult homosexual acts. Longford and the bishops, social scientists, housewives, educators, pop stars and writers...