During at least five years, France would indeed deny all that made it great over the last two centuries: Its motto, and in particular the third word in it.
One very tame example: Wife: 'A letter came for you marked Very Personal.' Husband: 'What did it say?' What the archive really shows is that, where cracker mottos were once tailor-made for particular social groups, now they're universal.
What is more, the Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2013 chose the motto "Resilient People, Resilient Planet" promoting in particular the resilience of communities while vulnerability is not addressed in certain key summaries (GPDRR 2013a, b).
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the motto is not an endorsement of a particular religion but rather a phrase that "merely acknowledges a part of our nation's heritage (albeit a religious part)." "The motto's placement on currency has the secular purpose of recognizing the religious component of our nation's history," Chief Judge Diane Wood wrote in her opinion.
"My spirit impels me to speak of bodies changed into new forms" are the words with which Ovid starts his "Metamorphoses," a good motto for all dance-goers and for Cunningham-viewers in particular.
Pundit "Dean David Broderr mocked the political savvy of General Gen. Wesley Clark because he "repeatedly invoked the West Point motto of 'Duty, Honor, Country,' forgetting that few in this particular audience have much experience with, or sympathy for, the military".
"Truth, beauty, freedom, love" is the motto of his beloved bohemians in "Moulin Rouge," but what Baz Luhrmann is really after at this particular moment is passion.
Verizon's motto is (in the voice of James Earl Jones) "Make progress every day," so this, apparently, was that particular day's leap forward, though it hardly felt like one.
