Word: vivamus
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...Frankly Mr. Shankly”—“I want to live and I want to love / I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of” is clear homage to Carmina 5’s famous “Vivamus atque amemus.” Both of these bands channeled their anguish through eloquence drenched in paranoid self-analysis, deprecating and depressing, and play as if written with poor Rob and his foibles in mind, proving that the misery, when well-expressed, is at least sometimes in the music...
Died. John Frederick Seiberling, 73, son of the late Frank A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., who lived by the motto Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we're alive, let us live"), who rejected the business world to spend his life building a large private library and traveling; of cancer; in Akron, Ohio...
Marx has puffed his way through Webster in twelve years. Now, on the second time around, his favorite expression is Dum Vivimus, Vivamus, which can be freely translated as "Live It Up." He found the exhortation so appealing that he had it embroidered on a batch of silk neckties that he gives away. His newest favorite word is "charismatic," a theological adjective pertaining to one who has a divine endowment to carry on the work to which he was called. Understandably. Marx caused a sensation when he applied the word to Ike at a White House dinner before...
...early beginning and 164 years of tradition, Porcellian has always represented the final club to the non-clubbed world. Begun in an era when Cambridge was small, isolated, and arid in entertainment, the club provided a necessary social break in the scholastic routine. The Porcellian's motto Dum vivimus vivamus was typical of the early attitude of the members--no lofty mission, no serious purpose, just jovial pleasantry...
...group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...