Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunset on the Bachelor's Flat. In an official directive, Hungary's Communist Council of Arts sternly observed that Hungarian popular music has become "decadent," lacking in the "dynamic rhythm of the new democracy." They express a maudlin desire to return to the "good old days." As an example of the kind of song that was out of tune with Marx ism, the council cited the following ballad...
Died. Francis Edwin McMurtrie, 64, author, journalist (London Sunday Express), and since 1935 editor of the world-famed Jane's Fighting Ships, the exhaustive annual reference book on the world's navies; of cancer; in Hoddesdon, England...
Robert Nathan's "Portrait of Jenny" manages to express a complex idea in such simple terms that its artistic virtuosity is often overlooked. Nathan's main character is a timeless, ethereal creature, sometimes real and sometimes so strange that her reality seems dubious. She grows up at her own speed, appears and disappears at will. Her sense of time is unusual; she remembers events of fifty years ago in terms of yesterday and she knows in strange and unexplicable ways the partial shape of the future...
...perfectly true that the four to one vote for this survey cannot be considered a responsible student mandate because the question was phrased in the abstract, and took no consideration of the possible disadvantages of such a survey. It offered, in short, a simple, unthinking way to express general dissatisfaction with Harvard food...
Bernard Baruch, 78, accepting the honorary chairmanship of the Hearst national oratory contest, had some advice for members of the younger generation who aspire to be elder statesmen: "Ability and facility to express an idea is almost as important as the idea itself...