Word: expressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admissions officers and professors patted themselves on the back that they were becoming a part of the struggle for equality. Although everyone expected these "specially" admitted students to have a rough time, everyone also expected them to work very hard to bring themselves up in the world, and to express the enormous gratitude they must feel. But somewhere in the sixties, things began to change. Universities in general were in upheaval, and Black students in particular were dissatisfied and rebellious. Somewhere along the line, minority students had abandoned their trust in their statistical value, and when they did, they found...
Seaver underlines the irony of Beckett's creative impulse ("The expression that there is nothing to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express") in the title he has chosen for this anthology, but he makes his selections in order to expose the remarkable continuity of Beckett's expression. In view of his fairly consistent production from 1929 through 1975, Beckett's labors seem less a romantic existentialist's anguish of creation than a diligent craftsman's continuing search for innovative forms...
...Catholic, I would much prefer to shrug off a few tasteless jokes about the Pope or the church than to interfere with the right of people to express their opinions or views in private...
Laborites and even some Tories dismiss the coalition talk as partisan. "Old men's twaddle," snorted George Gale, the crusty columnist for the Daily Express. "What is being offered in all this talk of 'government of national unity' is yet another dose of escapism." Callaghan's predecessor, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, told TIME that he opposed such a plan in peacetime because a national government "almost invariably produces fudged decisions." Moreover, Wilson added, the inclusion of Tories in the government would jeopardize the tenuous working agreement between the Callaghan government and the unions and lead...
...master of ceremonies to sleep, right at the head table. While the Senator can be charming in a small group, he has little rapport with the 20 or so reporters who ride in the back of the red, white and blue jet called the "Bob Dole Campaign Express...