Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this symphony was prefaced by an "elaborate pronouncement." May I quote what Mr. Harris actually had to say about his symphony's relationship to "life, destiny and the U.S. soil": "I hoped to express qualities of our people which our popular dance music, because of its very nature, cannot reveal. Our people are more than pleasure-loving. We also have qualities of heroic strength-determination-will to struggle-faith in our destiny. We are possessed of a fierce driving power-optimistic, young, rough and ready-and I am convinced that our mechanistic age has not destroyed an appreciation...
...Played possum when the question of Term IV was raised for the first time at a press conference. Asked if he had any views to express on recent interviews with Democratic Party members, during which Term IV was mentioned, the President suggested "Let's get on with the war." But even while the President was holding his conference, other conferences were being held with Democratic bigwigs in the Midwest by evasive Democratic National Chairman Frank C. Walker, head of the delegation that called on the President a fortnight ago mumbling a request that he run again (TIME, March...
...views of Vice President Henry A. Wallace cannot be labeled as the views of the U.S. Government. His unique position in the Administration leaves him free to express opinions which a President or a Secretary of State could not publicly state. Last week he stated such an opinion...
...object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish . . . Nonsense . . . Shame" greeted his protest; and Laborite Will Thorne, the House's oldest member (86), blew two blasts on a football referee's whistle to express his disapproval even more loudly. When order was restored, Brown accepted: ". . . I will give to you my very level best and thereto I pledge my word...
...wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television, autogiros, decentralized cities, lightweight automobiles and locomotives, air express, new chemicals, new medical discoveries so revolutionary that they offered a saving of human life greater than the sum of human life lost...