Word: mottos
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According to Japan's spring 2004 Directory of Parliament Officials, Representative Katsuya Okada's personal motto is Tai ki ban sei, a classic Japanese proverb that means "Great talents mature late." But considering that the new president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has rocketed from relative obscurity to what could be the golden era of his political career-all at the comparatively tender age of 52-he may want to revise that motto before the next guide is printed. With the DPJ's strong showing in the recent Upper House parliamentary election, Okada has cemented his position...
...Tanifuji, a political-science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. "After 9/11, politics in some way had to be very speedy. But voters are realizing that speedy can be sloppy." If Okada can keep the DPJ's momentum going, he may soon have reason to replace his current parliamentary motto with another classic Japanese saying: Teki zai teki sho-The right man for the right...
...McGlinn's bijou triumphs cued a concerted revival of concert revivals. In London, Ian Marshall Fisher's impressive series, Discover the Lost Musicals, has flourished since 1988. In 1994, the year Encores! began, the York Theatre uptown inaugurated a Musicals in Mufti series (its motto: "Think Encores! on a budget") to spotlight "underappreciated" musicals by such highly appreciated composers as Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, Jule Styne, Harold Rome, Noel Coward and Alan Menken. Downtown, and way downscale, there's Mel Miller's Musicals Tonight! series, which this week finished a run of the 1926 "The Girl Friend...
...fact, the Crimson traveled with a banner bearing the team motto, “Team First,” for most of the season...
Throughout the season, the Crimson brought a banner bearing its motto, “Team First,” to its locker room wherever it went, except for the championship weekend in Providence. Thanks to the leadership of its three seniors, the team’s success on and off the ice had already proven that the reminder was no longer necessary...