Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," replied Ike, "suppose they voted for you. Would you be astonished?" Scherer, who obviously was, gasped: "I certainly would." Then Ike took the opportunity to express a bit of homely political philosophy. In the U.S. "we are raised in the tradition of no supermen and no indispensable men, and therefore if you do retain some of the humility and modesty with which you hope you were born, why I believe that when [someone] comes along and says. 'I believe you are doing a pretty fair job as President of the U.S.,' you would be rather astonished...
...name invoked is that of Charles de Gaulle. Not since he turned his back on what he called the "mudhole" of French politics has the name of De Gaulle been on so many lips. Wrote the Roman Catholic man of the left center, Novelist Francois Mauriac, in L'Express: "He appears to me the only Frenchman in whom reposes enough pure glory and who is gifted with enough prestige to revive in North Africa around France a federation of free peoples...
...know who wrote the April 16 review of The Bold and the Brave but I would like to express my profound gratitude for it ... The idea for the movie came about when a young producer friend of mine was showing a 16-mm. film history of the 34th ("Red Bull") Division, and I saw my own tank destroyer in action in Italy. I got very excited and decided to write a war story. I will be grateful my whole life for such a profound, incisive and very beautifully written analysis of what I was trying...
With the aid of a large staff of assistants, the colonel passed his time conducting vast experiments in genetics, buying up old lots of abandoned express packages on the chance that they might contain something interesting, filling his house with furniture that hung on chains from the ceiling, and-from a special chair suspended from a huge tree before a great, open-air fireplace-delivering daily the hell he promised. Mrs. Fabyan contented herself with the relatively quieter companionship of a free-roving chimpanzee and a small private zoo of bears, wolves and coyotes...
...models. But it was such highly dramatic events as Germany's Peasants' War, the 1840 Silesian Weavers' Revolt and the women's dance around the guillotine inspired by Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities that gave her the subjects to express her greatest themes. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her work "art of the gutter," refused to award her a gold medal...