Word: expressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is more Proustian remembrance to come, mostly in what may be described as sandlots-revisited prose: "It is difficult to express the sheer beauty I experienced facing leftward, feeling the blazing sun upon my head, feeling the weedy field fly beneath my feet . . . looking back and spotting it, falling out of the silvery blue sky, glinting in the sun, the burning pointed oval that my out stretched fingers so desired...
...groan and tremble to astonishment." The first Baptist church in America was founded in Providence in 1639 by Roger Williams, who had been recently expelled from Massachusetts for his "new and dangerous opinions." But Williams himself decided that same year that no single church, not even his own, could express the true religion...
Nowhere do the Communists sound more bourgeois than in Italy, where they hope to gain enough votes on June 20 and 21 to influence, if not control, economic policymaking in the next government. (The Paris-based newsmagazine L'Express recently caricatured French Communist Leader Georges Marchais eating spaghetti with a hammer and sickle in anticipation of the boost to his own party.) In its public pronouncements, at least, the Partito Comunista Italiano (P.C.I.) has disowned one of the basic tenets of Marxist economic analysis: that capitalism is in the process of being destroyed by its own contradictions. "This [Italy...
London's Daily Express called her Wood Nymph, but Natalie Wood, consulting her astrological chart (Cancer), said she's a moonchild. Then the Express rolled out its fashion layout, in which Actress Wood, disdaining the nymphic and childish, opted for something very Capone-ish. After that, it was back to rehearsals for a TV special, with Lord Olivier playing Big Daddy and Natalie doing a feline Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
James Michael ("Jimmy") Goldsmith, 43, is the flamboyant, ardently Tory chairman of Britain's huge Cavenham food empire, third largest in Europe. Last month quite a few British eyebrows were raised when London's right-wing Daily Express reported that Harold Wilson had recommended Goldsmith for a peerage in the resignation honors list customarily submitted by Prime Ministers leaving office. Peerages, as well as lesser awards, are usually given to individuals who have rendered outstanding service either to the P.M. personally or to the country as a whole. But what possible public service...