Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bathed in blue light, musical legends gaze down in bas relief from the ceiling at House of Blues, welcoming a crowd worthy of the dishware which asserts "Unity in Diversity." Nonetheless, one won't find the usual Harvard yuppies-to-be here. Perhaps they are scared by the motto in foot-high capital letters above the bar: "The Wages of Sin is Death," choosing to frequent the dens of iniquity that are other Harvard bars...
...with contempt for the very idea that a roomful of reporters could question his honor. Standing under the hot lights last Thursday, Bill Clinton's close friend and unofficial adviser made it clear that this media circus meant little to him. "Never apologize, never explain"--that had been his motto for 17 years, ever since he left the presidency of the National Urban League after a racist gunman nearly took his life, going on to become Washington's most powerful back-room fixer. Now he had to violate that principle and offer a partial explanation of his role...
...hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served as the motto of one of our predecessors,--"I won't philosophize, I will be read...
...George do a worse job of containing his glee. It would have been funnier if he'd really lost it." Never before has television been host to such unreconstructed misanthropy. As Larry David, the show's co-creator and longtime guiding light, once quipped, if the show had a motto it was "no learning, no hugging...
...excuse to charges that he violated campaign laws and his denial that he knew the Buddhist temple affair was a political fund raiser. Gore has learned the wrong lessons from the Clinton presidency. But how can we expect him to keep his wits about him in an Administration whose motto seems to be "Everyone does it"? MICHAEL D. ALEX Glendora, Calif...