Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life without tutors is scary, no doubt. But keep this one motto in mind when you get out there--do what John Harvard wouldn't do and you'll do fine...
...learned to love machinery from her father Joseph, a printer and sometime inventor. A practical, progressive thinker, he dismissed his Jewish background; his wife Minnie Bourke was an equally forward-looking daughter of British immigrants. They taught Margaret the redemptive power of work and accomplishment and gave her the motto "You can." Joseph died during her freshman year in college, leaving her grief and a mixed legacy. She spent the rest of her life trying to match his vision of her possibilities--and the world's--in photographs...
...salute the current residents for upholding so vigorously a distinguished tradition of mayhem, as reported in The Crimson of April 8. Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of maniacs and funseekers, charging into battle, water pistols poised, the Mower motto emblazoned on their hearts: "Holworthy Sucks." Christopher H. Foreman...
...whom the world trusts." That is the campaign slogan being used by Kurt Waldheim, who became an international figure during ten years as United Nations Secretary-General, in his current campaign to become President of Austria. Last week the motto became an ironic taunt to Waldheim, who had been favored to win the May 4 election. Documents and photographs, apparently leaked by opponents, provided compelling evidence that Waldheim was a member of two Nazi organizations and served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim, 67, compounded his dilemma with a vague...
...reasonable stage presence--but like most of the cast, he lacks depth. Valiulis' performance is as flat as a day-old Coke, and he is constantly and annoyingly brushing the hair out of his eyes. The best of the male cast is Vanderryn as Duncan, the cowardly archduke whose motto seems to be "safety first." Stupid but vengeful enough to keep power, Duncan laughingly orders the slaughter of thousands of enemy troops, a prelude to the hilariously stupid ballon-decapitation scene...