Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acrobatic Anthropologist. Like another outstanding Negro dancer, Katherine Dunham, Pearl, now 27, is a serious student of anthropology which, she claims, has a direct bearing on her art. She is now working for a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Says she: "What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have...
...editors of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, the six-month trial run of Steve Canyon had been quite a trial. Steve had been a problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed...
Because of such problems, the Express also decided that Canyon and his jive talking crew had to go; Steve & Co. vanished from the Express without so much as a waggle of their wings. Steve's passing gave a clue to the differences between U.S. and British comic-strip tastes. Blondie is a fixture, in the Daily Graphic. Said an editor: "It never gets beyond the trifling happenings that go on in everyone's life all over the world." Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician and King of the Royal Mounted have been accepted because they are easily understood...
...YOUR FOREIGN NEWS SECTION JULY 14TH AN ARTICLE ABOUT ME APPEARED, THE RESULT OF A PRIVATE CONVERSATION MR. SAM WELLES HAD WITH ME DURING HIS RECENT STAY IN WARSAW. BEING MYSELF A JOURNALIST, I HAVE TO EXPRESS MY AMAZEMENT AT THIS ARTICLE, WHICH MUST BE CONSIDERED AS AN INTERVIEW PRINTED WITHOUT MY PREVIOUS CONSENT. IN CONSEQUENCE THERE ARE MANY DISCREPANCIES AND MISTAKES WHICH I HEREBY WISH TO CORRECT...
...only express my disappointment--to put it at the lowest--that we are now shown the door, with nothing but reproaches and abuse...