Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prompted by your excellent cover story on the University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins [TIME, Nov. 21], I should like to express my opinion about the exuberant chancellor...
Amid cheers and cries of "Hear! Hear!" a portly and cherubic figure rose from the opposition benches. His eyes were damp. "I most humbly express my thanks to the Prime Minister," rumbled 75-year-old Winston Churchill, "for the most kindly gesture which he has made to me. It brings home to me how far more great are all those sentiments which unite us than are the"-Churchill smiled and coughed -"still quite important matters which are so often the occasion of debate in this house and out of doors." As Churchill took his seat again, laughter and more cheers...
Through the questionnaire, students will be able to express their opinions upon problems and solutions that have been debated in the University and in Boston newspapers since the Yale game, including...
...pointed out the inadequacy of the poems in this latest collection. The quote on the frontispiece from Leon Bloy reads "When those who love God try to talk about him, their words are blind lions looking for springs in the desert." Merton's lines are fervent and usually very expressive but, for the most part, fall short in the description of the Divine; the title, "Tears of the Blind Lions," suggests that the poet is lamenting his own failure to express his love for God in verse...
With labor leaders, he said, things are different. While fully as aggressive and ambitious as business executives, they are able "to vent their spleen . . . [They] can get out and express their indignation...