Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy, attack unlimited academic freedom and take a dim view of the U.N. On the whole, he finds himself aligned with his authors' opinions, but he rarely hobnobs with right-wing VIPs. He sees himself as the champion of outcast authors, charges other publishers with deliberately ignoring books that express a far-right point of view. "It wouldn't be any service for me to publish the liberal authors." he says. "They have plenty of publishers who are only too happy to have them...
...controversy began when the Princess decided not to marry the Group Captain (the church's stand against remarriage for divorced persons was a primary reason). Newspapers attacked the Archbishop of Canterbury: TIME TO RESIGN, headlined the Sunday Express. A RISING TIDE OF ANGER, echoed the Daily Mirror. Orators and public-house lawyers dusted off a fine old 28-letter spelling-bee stand-by which for some years had ranked as a public issue above vegetarianism but considerably below prevention of cruelty to animals. The word: antidisestablishmentarianism...
...Cruel Hoax. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's L'Express (circ. 75,000) promptly slashed at the Elle charges with double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with its own expert's handwriting analysis ("imagination, energy, naive assurance") and psychological deductions ("harmoniously developed, neither stupid, nor poor nor vulgar...
...some people in his own party. Among others, Rodman sideswipes A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who last summer took full-page ads in six Manhattan dailies to exhort against modern art and supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand of art a specific 'moral answer' is just as unreasonable as to insist, as some formalist critics do, that the artist have no morals at all, that he create in a vacuum...
...Which is always attached to "through express trains running on time; Mr. McGinnis never uses the commuter trains," a spokesman explained recently, denying newspaper stories that the car was on a commuter train stalled for 69 minutes by 1) a washout, 2) engine failure, and 3) bridge construction...