Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunger & History. Marguerite Stihl#233;'s addled protest was important. Thousands of Frenchmen were voting Communist to express discontent and opposition, even though the Communists are in the Government. Maurice Thorez knows well that hunger is his most effective fellow traveler. By focusing attention on France's economic ills he draws French attention away from the issues of dictatorship and Russian control...
...have flashed temptingly through their lordships' minds. But too well they knew the retribution in store for them if they misbehaved; some particularly brash commoners had even murmured darkly of dissolving the upper chamber entirely. Declared Lord Swinton: "Lord Merthyr's is not a wise view to express in this century." He concluded by sternly advising Lord Merthyr to "revise his estimate of the comparative value of valor and discretion...
...routine assignment to every legman but the 18-year-old cub reporter from the Herald & Express. Just another murder-suicide of a lonely elderly couple in a Los Angeles hotel room. The cub, Phoebe Millicent Hearst, out on her first gory crime story, stared with elaborate calm at the bodies on the bed. Then she turned away to help brisk Agness Underwood, her tutor, rifle through the dresser drawers for pictures...
...literary criticism. Each is a shining reflection of Essayist Orwell's intelligent, often violent opinions on contemporary life in Europe and the U.S. All of the essays are openhearted, open-minded, and filled with hot distaste for both the tightness of orthodoxy and the looseness of hedonism. They express an unusual combination of strength and gentleness in an easy, fluent prose...
Final Fate. What Novelist Farrell has achieved is an involved, painstaking chronicle of one kind of city life. He has also tried, without much imagination or success, to express his disgust at the power of money over human destinies...